Results 1-17 of 17 for other and baby speaker:Louise O'Reilly

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: ...section 621: “Power of the Court to return assets which have been improperly transferred 621A. (1) The court has the following power where, on the application of the Minister or the liquidator and/or employee representative and employees’ recognised trade union in respect of a situation in which collective redundancies have arisen in circumstances in which the employer...

Mother and Baby Institutions Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Deputies for tabling the motion and giving us the opportunity to debate an incredibly important issue. It had not been my intention to speak but I looked for time to speak on behalf of two of my constituents. Many of my constituents are victims. As the Minister knows, there are many victims, many of whom will be excluded. One is a man who thinks he is aged 79; he does not know...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I want to take a moment to also offer my congratulations to the Minister, Deputy McEntee, and her husband on the wonderful news of the arrival of their baby boy this morning. As my grandmother used to say, a baby brings their own luck. I wish the Minister, her husband and their new baby all of the luck in the world. I remind the Tánaiste that the Minister herself said before she left...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: It is nine months since NPHET recommended that discretionary elements of travel should end, which is nearly 300 days. Consistently, throughout this crisis, NPHET and others have called for real checks and controls at our airports and seaports. In April of last year, Sinn Féin called for a quarantine regime for people entering the State. On 5 May, I stated in the media that our failure...

Covid-19 (Special Educational Needs Provision): Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: It seems the Minister has conveniently forgotten that it was by agreement with the teachers unions and the special needs assistant, SNA, unions that the schools were able to reopen and stayed open for 80 days. The Minister was quick to take all of the credit for reopening schools but when her failure to engage and her inability to listen and respond to the genuine concerns of those working...

CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Second Stage (26 Jun 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I welcome this Bill but I feel it is being rushed. I will be honest about that. I understand time is tight and the end of this Dáil term is coming but it does feel like this is being rushed somewhat. I am sure every speaker this evening will acknowledge the bravery of the women who came forward and told their stories in the media. I would say that was really hard. I do not know how...

Civil Liability (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: First Stage (14 Jun 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for mandatory open disclosure of a patient safety incident, to introduce a mandatory requirement that the patient be provided with any additional information which later becomes available and for that purpose to amend the Civil Liability (Amendment) Act 2017 and to provide for related matters. I thank the Ceann...

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)

Louise O'Reilly: ...Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018. This is incredibly important legislation that will finally give a whole generation of people the opportunity to have their say on the eighth amendment and Ireland's effective constitutional ban on abortion. The repeal of the eighth amendment is necessary in order to ensure that Irish women have access to proper and appropriate health care. The...

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

Louise O'Reilly: While the announcement of a delay to the commission of investigation's report is disappointing, the reasons for the delay - the sheer amount of documentary evidence - cannot, and should not, be disputed. I would have preferred it if additional resources had been requested when the scale of the documentary evidence became apparent in order for the report to be published on time. I accept the...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: ...be divisive, the more likely it is that it will be thus. I do not believe that it necessarily has to be divisive, unlike in 1983. I have spoken to my mother at length about this because both she and my father campaigned against the insertion of the eighth amendment into our Constitution. I am both grateful and proud of them for that, as it goes but of course, they were not alone in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 38 - Department of Health (27 Sep 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: Whether it is good news or bad news, the figures should be published at a reasonable time. The Minister's colleague who was responsible for the housing figures got caught on this a number of times and now those figures are published. I have written to the Minister on this matter on more than one occasion. We all know what kind of news gets published at 6 p.m. on a Friday and it is not good...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (17 May 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for the evidence they provided. I have a number of questions. The first is to the witnesses from Mental Health Reform. Ms McGuigan started by saying that she is a mam, which is a good way to start and an indication of how personal the story is to her. As part of the maternity strategy, we are supposed to be employing more perinatal psychiatrists....

Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (3 May 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I will begin by acknowledging the cross-party support for this motion, which sends a fairly clear message to women and indeed, to men. Perhaps they get a hard time sometimes but one gets the feeling that they made a lot of the rules that we are trying to undo at the moment. I have to say that for an order that takes a vow of poverty, chastity, obedience and service to the poor, the Sisters...

Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (3 May 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I move:That Dáil Éireann:notes: — that since 2011, maternity services in Ireland have been marked with investigations and, in some cases, alleged cover ups of maternal and child mortality or injury in Portiuncula as well as University Hospital Galway, Portlaoise, Cavan, and Drogheda; — that Ireland has the lowest number of consultant obstetricians per 100,000 women...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (8 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: ...proud to be one of its supporters. It deserves credit for bringing this about because it was only through its hard work that the matter got the attention it deserves. I welcome this legislation and hope we will be in a position to expedite its passage as well as ensuring the provisions of the Bill take effect as quickly as possible. This is not the first time today that the Minister and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I wish to thank the witnesses for coming in and sharing their experience and knowledge with us. I have tabled several parliamentary questions for the attention of the HSE on the 20-week scan, on which I feel very strongly. The response to one question was sent and then amended. It had initially said that 20 to 22 week scans are routinely provided to patients in certain hospitals, but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: ...about implementing the maternity strategy or prioritising women's health. It gives me no pleasure to say that. My first question relates to the provision of an anomaly scan at between 20 and 22 weeks of pregnancy. When I asked the Minister about this issue in October 2016, he referred my question to the HSE which subsequently advised me that this scan is routinely offered and...