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Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Oct 2022)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I welcome the opportunity to contribute on Second Stage of this Bill and will support its progress today. There are increasing concerns that unbalanced work-life relationships can result in reduced health and performance outcomes for individuals, families and organisations. This has been exacerbated by the pandemic, when it was necessary to fuse work life with home life due to the sudden...

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

Peter Fitzpatrick: More than 10,500 people are homeless. Since 2014, the number of families who are homeless has increased by 354%. One in three persons living in emergency accommodation is a child. These figures do not include the people who live with families and friends who, I can vouch, come in daily and weekly to my constituency office. The figures also do not include people who live in squats, those...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I support this amendment which would allow us to show some dignity to the remains of the unborn child after a surgical abortion has been carried out, which is a violent and gruesome procedure. The amendment guarantees that unborn children who have been aborted will have their remains treated properly either by burial or cremation. It places no burden on the woman to have a role in this, as...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...cancer checks. Since last Saturday some 8,000 women have contacted the HSE helpline because of these deaths. Out of the 17 women who died, 15 did not know of the misdiagnoses. As with other issues such as the mother and baby homes, the Magdalen laundries and the hepatitis C scandal, the 208 women who were diagnosed with cervical cancer should have received earlier intervention. Of...

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)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...by the Minister for Health, Deputy Simon Harris, this morning. As a member of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution, I am particularly interested in this issue and have made my views well known. I would like to take this opportunity to address the Government's current plans. I believe today to be a very sad day indeed. No matter how we try to...