Results 1-8 of 8 for other and baby speaker:Garret Ahearn

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 May 2023)

Garret Ahearn: I thank the Minister of State for being here to take this important Commencement matter. As a father of young kids, he will understand the concerns I have for young parents and mothers going through maternity services. Most of my contribution is about maternity services throughout the country but, in particular, in Tipperary University Hospital, Clonmel. The first thing to acknowledge is...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products (2 Feb 2023)

Garret Ahearn: I will not rehearse what Senator Seery Kearney said, but I echo both every single word and the passion with which she spoke. I have been raising this matter since April 2021. In other words, for almost two years. It seems that either no one is listening or that people are moving to some degree but are doing so while kicking and screaming. We are getting to the point where Hyperemesis...

Seanad: Organisation of Working Time (Reproductive Health Related Leave) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (20 Jan 2022)

Garret Ahearn: I welcome the debate on the Bill, and I offer my support it. I wish to touch on the point Senator Hoey finished on regarding stigma. As public representatives, we talk to people who are probably open enough to talk about it and do not suffer from a need to hide anything, or at least they do not any more, while they might have had at the time. There are so many people in this country, even...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Healthcare Policy (16 Nov 2021)

Garret Ahearn: I will indeed. I thank the Minister of State for being here and taking this important question on the support the State needs to give to people going through IVF treatment. I brought it up for a couple of reasons. It is very important and we, as a Government, have made a commitment to the people in this State to support them through IVF treatment, just as other EU countries do. The Bill...

Seanad: Organisation of Working Time (Reproductive Health Related Leave) Bill 2021: Second Stage (24 May 2021)

Garret Ahearn: I welcome the Minister of State to the Chamber. I thank Senator Bacik for bringing this Bill before the House tonight and for her contribution. It is staggering that 14,000 women every year suffer from miscarriage. Everyone knows someone who has gone through it and normally the person is a family member. The only reason we know she is a family member is because if it is not a family...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2021)

Garret Ahearn: ...one in ten women suffer from during pregnancy. It is a condition that became quite commonly known from Kate Middleton's pregnancy. It is a condition that women suffer from involving severe nausea and vomiting to the extreme levels that one cannot work or have any sort of normal pregnancy. There are three drugs for the condition, two of which are not available in Ireland and one of which...

Seanad: Response to Covid-19 (Social Protection): Statements (1 Feb 2021)

Garret Ahearn: I will continue the trend here today and congratulate the Minister on becoming a grandmother. I wish Deputy Humphreys well and congratulate her and baby Arthur. Like others, I hope Arthur's mother is recovering well and doing well. The Minister must be quite a popular grandmother with the introduction of the increase in parental leave from two weeks to five weeks. I know from my own...

Seanad: Report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation: Statements (Resumed) (26 Jan 2021)

Garret Ahearn: ...Boyhan's contribution to the debate. It is very appropriate that he is sitting in the Chair today. I hope it is symbolic of where we have come to as a country, where we have someone with his life and experience holding that seat during this debate. I thank the Minister for being here and for the work he has done over recent months. It is incredibly difficult and I know the work he is...