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Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: ...they have to go elsewhere. There are only three GPs in some counties. Sligo, Roscommon and Mayo are enormous areas of the country where people cannot get access to services. We as a country pat ourselves on the back because women no longer have to travel to England for abortions but they should not have to travel anywhere to get a medical service to which they are entitled under the...

Seanad: Report of the Joint Committee on Key Issues Affecting the Traveller Community: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Pauline O'Reilly: ...Agency indicated that 1,000 of those on the accommodation list have Traveller-specific needs. That is a massive number we need to address. We need to hear from experts so I will reference Mr. Pat Doyle, CEO of the Peter McVerry Trust, who said: Very often we have the sites. Very often we have [the] funding and the backing from the department but [what] we need [is] ... local leadership...

Seanad: Report on Victim’s Testimony in cases of rape and sexual assault: Motion (17 Nov 2021)

Pauline O'Reilly: ...it. We can get bogged down in legalistic language and alienate people. We need to say strongly that the problem here is there is violence against women and those rates have not changed. We pat ourselves on a back as a society and say we have made so many improvements to people's well-being, but when it comes to violence against women, there has been no change. In fact, we do not even...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment and Labour Market Participation: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2021)

Pauline O'Reilly: The fact internships do not evolve into jobs is a big blockage. We can all pat ourselves on the back that we have internships but they never produce anything. It is great to hear from Fórsa that standards exist once people are in the jobs. We must now focus, therefore, on getting people into jobs and ending any blockages.

Seanad: Education: Statements (28 Jul 2020)

Pauline O'Reilly: ...that more than 90% of schools are still Catholic. We need to address that but we also need to address what we are learning in school. I urge the Minister to look at a fantastic programme on empathy, which is fully funded and which Professor Pat Dolan, the UNESCO chair of the Child and Family Research Centre in Galway, was behind. In terms of teaching our children in a school setting, we...