Results 1-7 of 7 for other and baby speaker:Matt Carthy

Nursing Home Charges and Disability Allowance Payments: Statements (9 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: On 21 July 2011, the then Secretary General of the Department of Finance famously stated, "The Government of Ireland pays its debts, always has and plans to do so." Of course, he was talking about the use of billions of euro of Irish taxpayers' money being used to bail out unsecured bank bondholders, because the Government of Ireland does not always pay its debts and, certainly, not when it...

Back to School Costs: Motion [Private Members] (5 Jul 2022)

Matt Carthy: ...to support families with the costs of sending their children back to school. I welcome the measures that were announced today. I particularly welcome the announcement of free school transport, and I hope it will become a permanent measure. I also hope the school transport scheme will be expanded so we can get rid of the ludicrous situation where school buses in my constituency are...

Cork University Maternity Hospital: Statements (30 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: ...appreciate that particular type of pain are people who have gone through it themselves, parents who have found themselves in that situation. It is a particularly lonely loss because nobody else, other than the parents, knew the child or the baby. Therefore, it is impossible to imagine a scenario where parents have to go through that pain, have to try to come to terms with and manage...

Direct Provision: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Matt Carthy: The direct provision systems should be a source of shame to us all, particularly considering the history of people from our country seeking sanctuary from hunger and oppression in other places across the world. The direct provision system has failed utterly those who have sought asylum and also local host communities. I was struck recently in listening to recollections of those who were...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2020)

Matt Carthy: We could bamboozle people with reference to the Committee on Procedures and standards and committees and all of this type of thing. Essentially, the procedures and Standing Orders which are in place state the Committee of Public Accounts cannot discuss a pertinent, ongoing, current situation without the approval of Government. That undermines exactly what the Committee of Public Accounts...

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2020)

Matt Carthy: "After being freed from Bessborough, my life was made up of continual suicide attempts ... I could not accept how my baby had been allowed to die without any medical care." Those are the words of a survivor. Many Irish women were deeply, physically and mentally hurt by the abuse suffered in the mother and baby homes. It is hard to believe that such injustice could ever have been so...

Covid 19 (Childcare): Statements (6 May 2020)

Matt Carthy: Throughout the debates on the provision of childcare it is natural that there has been an amount of discussion considering the impact it is having on parents and those involved in essential services. However, there seems to have been one glaring omission in the consultations, namely, with childcare workers themselves. Last week, the Taoiseach announced that childcare services would open on...