• Green Party Senator (Labour Panel)
• Entered the Seanad on 30 March 2020 — General election
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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Apr 2024)

“It gives me huge pleasure, on behalf of the Green Party, to welcome our colleague, Mal O'Hara, who is chair of our all-Ireland party. I have worked closely with Mal for a number of years. On behalf of the Green Party, I negotiated our foreign affairs and Northern Ireland policy and Mal joined me in those negotiations along with former leader Clare Bailey. We negotiated with the Ministers,...”

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Strategies (21 Mar 2024)

“The Minister of State is very welcome. To our shame in Ireland, we have the lowest rates of breastfeeding in Europe. We have one of the lowest rates of breastfeeding in the world, in fact. A recent study by The Lancet showed that 800,000 babies per year and 20,000 women per year die as a result of not breastfeeding. This should be a shock for us in a First World country. We know that...”

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Strategies (21 Mar 2024)

“I am pleased to hear the acknowledgement that the WHO international code of marketing on breast-milk substitutes has not been fully implemented by Ireland. However, this was adopted in 1981 by the World Health Assembly and more than 40 years later the WHA is now attempting to update it to include digital marketing as well. That is simply what this is about. The fact that Ireland has not...”

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