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An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (9 Mar 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this incredibly important legislation. I thank the Minister for Health, Deputy Simon Harris, and his team for being ready with the legislation following the recent Supreme Court judgment. Unexpected pregnancy has featured in the lives of women and men in this country and globally for as long as we have existed on this planet. A woman's choice to end a...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (18 Jan 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: ...all pregnancies were carried to full term without complications or the devastating news of fatal foetal abnormality, people who did not want to become parents used contraception all the time, girls and women were not raped and there were no victims of incest. I could go on but irrespective of what my preferences are, the reality is that abortion takes place in Ireland every day both...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Strategy (20 Jun 2017)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1000 and 1406 to 1426, inclusive, together. Some of the matters raised by the deputy are largely encompassed in the recent Health Service Executive publication entitled Breastfeeding in a Healthy Ireland: the HSE Breastfeeding Action Plan 2016 - 2021. This Action Plan sets out the priority areas to be addressed over the next 5 years to improve...

Seanad: Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme: Statements (22 Feb 2017)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: I am pleased to address the House today and to have the opportunity to discuss the outcome of the symphysiotomy ex gratia payment scheme and the report of Judge Maureen Harding Clark, assessor to the scheme. We have all been touched by the stories of the women who underwent symphysiotomy, and the Government's aim was to take a person-centred and as dignified an approach as possible to help...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Jul 2013)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak on this very important piece of legislation. I wish to state at the outset that I will be voting with my conscience and with the Government on this issue, as I do on every other issue. I wish to set out some facts which I hope will explain my reasons for doing so. However, before I do that I wish to say that a great deal of misinformation is in...

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2013)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: It is with profound acknowledgement of the findings of the McAleese report that I welcome the opportunity to speak. I thank Dr. Martin McAleese and his committee for their work in producing this long-awaited report, which provides us with an indepth exploration of one aspect of a period of silent and latent societal degradation. The women and children housed in these institutions and...