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Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (5 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ..., creideann siadsan nár cheart ginmhilleadh a dhéanamh. Ansin tá daoine ann a chreideann - agus déarfainn go bhfuil siúd thart ar an tríú chuid freisin - go mba cheart, i gcásanna áirithe, ginmhilleadh a cheadú ach go mba cheart go mbeadh srianta ann. Abortion is a complex issue. As I said in Irish, you could divide the population into...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Safe Deposit Boxes and Related Deposits Bill 2022: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...taken pace as a matter of course long before we got this far. When it is a Private Member's Bill, however, Deputies do not have those privileges of access. Many of the points raised are valid and could be dealt with. While reading the written submissions, I was considering the focus of the Bill and how to mitigate the risk the witnesses have clearly highlighted. We need to keep in mind...

Brexit (Fishing Industry): Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will try. The Leas-Cheann Comhairle might stop the clock too. Second, there is a perfect storm at the moment for the shellfish sector. There is Covid, Brexit and all the problems getting goods in and out. My understanding is that, particularly with farmed oysters, the price has literally gone through the floor, although some other shellfish are not as badly affected. Is there any...

Estimates for Public Services 2020 (Resumed) (28 May 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...issues. If a person does not go back to work but is available for work, does he or she get the Covid payment? The second is the possibility of extended maternity leave being introduced. I understand that would take legislation. The Minister might tell me if it would not. The argument in favour of it is that when one has a new baby, there is no childcare available at present and in a...

An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Constitution was introduced in 1937 and voted on by the people then. This is the first time we have been asked to put forward a Bill which will take away the most fundamental of human rights from people, the right to life. I note much of the time in this debate that the child in the womb is not mentioned. It is as if it did not exist. It is as if its health and its well-being do not...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I find it incredibly difficult to speak about this subject. It is important when speaking about it not to hurt or offend anybody, and I will try to speak in a way that does not do that. I have been an elected representative for a long time. One thing I have always tried to do is not judge anybody on anything they have done. All of us have experience of people coming to our constituency...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Mar 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I think she would have not accepted that she was not a mother from the time that she started carrying a baby. There is a great slagging match going on that those of us who believe in the protection of human life do so at the behest of the Catholic Church. Do I believe in the protection of born human life because of the Catholic Church? The rest of the Deputies here, who I know would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 Dec 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will be brief. It is getting late in the day, we still have an awful lot to discuss at this committee this evening and I must also attend the Dáil. I accept the Minister's comments up to a point and that the current inequitable fishing arrangement was arrived at in the 1980s. It was wrong then and it is wrong now. We do not receive a disproportionate amount of German mine or...

Rural Coastal Communities Report: Motion (10 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I compliment the committee chairperson, Deputy Doyle, on the fantastic work and effort that has been put into this report. Although he claimed at the beginning not to know much about coastal communities or fishermen, he made a significant contribution to this report. I must also say I do not have the knowledge of fishing that Deputy Martin Ferris has, but I have been dealing with fishermen...

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The issue of donor-assisted pregnancy and so on. My understanding is that a baby produced in this way will be entitled, on reaching 18 years of age, to information regarding his or her genetic mother but will have not have any right to a relationship per sewith the mother, and vice versa. The Minister might say that the same currently applies in relation to sperm donation, which is another...

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...here because the problem is that we will never get to deal with what is in this Bill. This is the problem with the process being driven by this Government for some agenda that is hard to understand. Good process is good process, and it is good process with every Bill. If we want to see the dangers of what I would call this consensus-driven "let's get it through and let's not look at the...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Apr 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am glad to have an opportunity to speak on the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012. I am surprised by the changes the Minister has made to the social welfare system because they appear to amount to a concerted attack on women in particular. An examination of her proposals shows the change to the averaging rule has made the position of many women much worse. I refer to women who worked...