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Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (15 May 2019)

Clare Daly: I move:That Dáil Éireann, having been made aware in recent times of the activities in Mother and Baby Homes that operated throughout Ireland in the twentieth century: notes: — the ill-treatment of the mothers and babies in these homes; — the forced separation of single mothers and their babies from 1922 to 1998; — the falsification of birth certificates and...

Retention of Records Bill 2019: Second Stage (2 Apr 2019)

Clare Daly: The preservation of the records of the three inquiries would be welcomed by everybody. It is probably overdue in many ways. The fact that positive act, and the legislation being proposed to do that, would also contain within it one of the more regressive, unhelpful and draconian elements of legislation is appalling. It strikes a chilling tone. This is being enforced in respect of citizens...

Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2019)

Clare Daly: ..., in 2017 he said: "The issues highlight the need to intervene effectively." I could not have put it better myself, but that is exactly what has not happened. We have the policy, but no action and no resources to realise it. In that sense, Deputy Joan Collins's motion before the House is a good one. There is a certain irony in it in that what it calls for the Government to do is...

Fourth Interim Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (7 Feb 2019)

Clare Daly: ...Connolly, I have no respect for The Irish Timesbut the person whose article brought this information into the public domain is one of its better writers. It is the case that survivors of the mother and baby homes, not to mind politicians, should not be getting their information from The Irish Timesor any other media outlet. This is an incredibly important issue. There is a certain irony...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (29 Jan 2019)

Clare Daly: The Tánaiste spoke about how best Ireland can be effective. The problem is that Ireland and the EU have not been effective. For example, last year, the UN Security Council passed a resolution condemning the starvation of civilians in war time and particularly on behalf of the Yemeni civilians but they are still starving. That is the point. They are starving as a result of deliberate,...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2018)

Clare Daly: This was an amendment the Government flagged to us earlier and I am sure we all will welcome it because where there is any question about the reasons for a baby dying, either during labour or otherwise, those questions need to be answered, not just for the family but also for the health service. As the Minister said, while the section is not providing for mandatory inquests into baby deaths,...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (20 Sep 2018)

Clare Daly: 23. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the methodology of the scoping exercise into illegal birth registrations, illegal adoptions and other irregularities at mother and baby homes including the number of files and homes that will be included in the exercise; and when it is due to be completed. [37907/18]

Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (19 Sep 2018)

Clare Daly: It is absolutely incredible in some ways that we are dealing with a situation where the coronial service is operating under legislation dating back to the 1960s and in spite of the considerable changes that have taken place in society since then, we have not been able to get our act together to modernise the legislation. I am aware that secondary legislation behind the scenes did change the...

Independent Clinical Review of Maternity Services at Portiuncula University Hospital: Statements (14 Jun 2018)

Clare Daly: The release of this report came at the height of the CervicalCheck scandal and it landed with less impact than it deserved. The CervicalCheck scandal hit the headlines. It was, unfortunately, an opportunity for some politicians, who may have been asleep at the wheel regarding this issue for the past ten years, to get a few headlines for themselves by shouting and roaring. They woke up and...

Referendum of 25 May: Statements (29 May 2018)

Clare Daly: Yesterday, we were walking across Dublin and we met a Donegal man on a bicycle who was mad to talk. He said abortion had been an issue all his adult life and he could not believe it was over. He said he never wanted to hear the word again. I felt an enormous sympathy. What he said summed up exactly the way I felt about it myself. For so many, the weekend's vote was like an enormous...

Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

Clare Daly: I will restate the point on amendment No. 74. We see no reason we would not balance the rights of one person, for example, a mother who put her baby up for adoption, against the rights of the baby who was adopted in making a decision on whether the child should be given information on the mother. It would not always result in a decision in the child's favour. The requirement is that the...

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 May 2018)

Clare Daly: ...medical staff from those same developing countries, which they could use at home. We have seen it before with issues such as adoption, where people with money can travel to foreign countries and pay huge sums of money to adopt children, in some instances, in areas where they do not know whether the mother has been forced into a pregnancy in order to deliver, in essence, a baby for sale,...

Third Interim Report from the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (13 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: I am really getting weary with the delay and, in some ways, the excuses. If I feel like that, God only knows what the survivors and those for whom this is a lived experience are feeling. We must ask ourselves why were these delays not anticipated and what are we doing to put the resources in place to ensure there are no further delays. Over the past period there have been many nice...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Ms Liz McDermott, One Day More (22 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: I thank Ms McDermott for coming in. It is much appreciated by all members and I know how difficult it must be for her. There has been much discussion of crisis pregnancies at the committee but there is no doubt that a diagnosis in the latter part of a wanted pregnancy that reveals a condition that will limit the life of the baby is utterly devastating. Ms McDermott presented very well...

Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: These sections are the key to the Bill and concern the issue of open disclosure. We are dealing here with new definitions of the types of safety incident that cause serious and less serious harm; with mandatory open disclosure regarding serious incidents; with voluntary open disclosure of less serious incidents; and so on. This is a huge group. With the Leas-Cheann Comhairle's permission I...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (4 Jul 2017)

Clare Daly: 48. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on whether new revelations regarding vaccine trials carried out on children at a location (details supplied) in 1974 warrants a separate investigation to ascertain the person or body that gave permission to a pharmaceutical company to carry out trials for baby formula and other products; the measures she will take to secure...

Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Jun 2017)

Clare Daly: ...than what it does. In concentrating my points on the bits that are not in it, it is no reflection on the bits I favour that are in it. I will begin by echoing by the points made by some of the other Deputies earlier on the concerns that have been highlighted to us today and yesterday by the Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists which, as other Deputies have said, has raised a...

Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 May 2017)

Clare Daly: ..., it is incredibly long-awaited - the biggest problem I have with it is that there are two key areas it was specifically teed up to address but, as far as I can see on both scores, it is deficient and will need radical overhaul if it is to achieve what all of us hoped it might. The two areas relate to periodic payment orders, which other Deputies have addressed, and open disclosures. In...

Topical Issue Debate: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (12 Apr 2017)

Clare Daly: What the survivors have always wanted is acknowledgement, apology and inclusion. The interim report goes some way to saying it warrants further investigation into including those who have been excluded. The decision on which institutions to include and exclude was very inconsistent. That needs to be addressed. There is an urgent need for the Minister to meet with representatives of the...

Topical Issue Debate: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (29 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: The Minister for Education and Skills is aware that I recently tabled legislation to amend the residential institutions statutory fund. The fund was charged with assisting and administering some sort of redress to the people who had experienced abuse in residential institutions. Subsequent to that, there was an explosion in the media, particularly on the radio airwaves, concerning some of...