Seanad debates

Wednesday, 28 May 2003

Maternity Protection (Amendment) Bill 2003: Second Stage.

 

I brought my two babies from Galway to Dublin on a daily basis to feed them. I took a hotel room in Buswell's Hotel and stole offices from people here to breastfeed them. Why? It was not because I would not have been generously paired by the Opposition, as I would have – it was the principle. I had no right to stay at home with my baby in Galway. Breastfeed for 20 weeks – what a joke. If one is a Government Member one's place is here and one is expected to vote. If a woman is a member of a local authority and it comes to Estimates, nobody will have much sympathy if she says she cannot vote because she is in hospital having her baby.

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