Results 1-20 of 193 for does speaker:Annie Hoey

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Freedom and Security of the Press Operating in Areas of Conflict: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...one question and maybe it is one of those ones that is possibly up in the ether. In the context of the situation in Gaza, which is at the forefront, as well as Ukraine and other conflicts, what does justice, if that is the right word, look like for those journalists who have lost their lives? I should add, I do not think there can be justice. When a life is lost, a life is lost. What...

Seanad: Migration: Statements (10 Jul 2024)

Annie Hoey: I congratulate the Minister on his elevation to the leadership of the Green Party. I wish him the best of luck in everything he does with that in the next couple of months. While I welcome this discussion on migration, I echo Senator Seery Kearney's sentiments that it can, ultimately, make one very nervous. We can see how easy it is for snippets and conversations to become manipulated...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...leader, the Minister, Deputy Roderic O'Gorman, to whom I, of course, extend my congratulations on his successful election as leader, also called for this legislation in his leadership speech. Does the Leader have update as to the status of that legislation because the Coalition Against Hate Crime Ireland and other affected groups are deeply concerned? We have seen only in the past couple...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: State Response to Online Disinformation and Media and Digital Literacy: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...was the key thing that set that whole situation off. I might tease through that and what we can learn from that. We need to understand what we can do going forward to ensure something like that does not happen again, as well as the different remits the witnesses have to try to tackle that or even remits outside of those of us within the room. We must understand what is it that social...

Seanad: National Cancer Services: Motion (19 Jun 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...causes of death in Ireland and is very treatable if caught early. It is typically diagnosed at a very late stage in Ireland. Two out of every three lung cancers are diagnosed at stage 3 or 4. It does not have to be that way. Very often with lung cancer, as was the case with my dad, it is when people are in an accident and emergency department or they get a completely innocuous...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...not mean houses that are clearly abandoned with wood across them and so on, or houses with recently sold or for sale signs on them. However, you can tell they are empty. We are stunned by it. It does not matter which part of the constituency it is - up, down, north, south or any of it. In every part of the constituency, we are knocking on doors, then peering in and can see the houses...

Seanad: Parent’s Leave and Benefit Act 2019 (Extension of Periods of Leave) Order 2024: Motion (30 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: It is great to have the Minister of State in the House on this good news day and to see the extension. I hope people will take note of it and avail of the leave. Does he have any information on the uptake of parent’s leave and benefit and is there any data on that? I was in Iceland a couple of years ago on a study trip to learn how Iceland had built one of the most gender-equal...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport (Arms Embargo) Bill 2024: Second Stage (29 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...Bill is going through the up-in-the-air diplomatic processes? The Labour Party and I have been clear that the violence must stop. It feels ridiculous to say that we need a ceasefire now. What does that even mean anymore? We need more than a ceasefire. We need sanctions. We need to ensure that Ireland is in no way complicit with the provisions of arms or weapons to this brutal Israeli...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Community-based Cancer Support Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...be. I wonder whether that is something that comes up, that there is an awareness that there could be additional screening for certain kinds of cancers, but that we just not have them here yet. Does that ever come up in conversations the witnesses have with people?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Community-based Cancer Support Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...to start screening for other cancers. It is great the witnesses have highlighted that people can come at a later date and acknowledge their trauma because it is a gruelling experience and it does not have to be their experience of cancer at that exact moment. I thank the witnesses.

Seanad: Waste Management: Statements (22 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...tendering for waste collection, but I do not think we can continue with the status quo. That is not happening in the four Dublin local authority areas, although perhaps it happens in other areas. It does not seem to be working in Kildare either. I have a few other colleagues around the country who, since we put this motion together, have said that it is not working for them. Another...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Child Protection (2 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: ..., taking lengthy and expensive legal actions against the survivors of abuse carried out by its members. It seems that the Minister is providing funding because St. John's Ambulance Ireland perhaps does not have its own funds. How, then, is it able to take the legal cases to which I refer? Is the Minister aware of these legal cases and the cost involved? If he is, why is he providing...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Child Protection (2 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...made the Department aware of the need for financial support in order to fund the post of safeguarding lead. Is the Minister of State aware that all of these legal cases are being taken? How does the organisation not have the finances for this post if it has the finances for legal cases? Is the Minister of State aware of this? I want to make sure I am reading this right. Is part of the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (17 Apr 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...have. We are ranked worst in the EU for availability and accessibility for trans health by TGEU, despite the fact we have some of the most progressive laws. Unfortunately, our health system does not match that. We are rated F for timely and adequate access to trans health care by LGBT Ireland and we have a de facto centralised gender clinic model. There are no national gender-affirming...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (17 Apr 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...healthcare professionals to provide individuals with care, respect, empathy and accuracy; and uplift decision-making according to each person’s individual needs. I am worried that the response does not take into account that we still do not have trans healthcare in Ireland. With this response, I am not sure that we will get it in the way that we need it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for People with Epidermolysis Bullosa: Discussion (28 Feb 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...with EB who is aged under 16 and meets the income threshold and other requirements, will he or she be able to claim the carer’s allowance or domiciliary allowance? Is it a qualifying illness? How does that work for carers whose income is under the threshold?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for People with Epidermolysis Bullosa: Discussion (28 Feb 2024)

Annie Hoey: It does. That is great.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Animal Breeding (20 Feb 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...dogs were euthanised in Irish pounds - twice as many as in 2021. These shocking figures come as the ISPCA estimates that 30,000 puppies a year are produced in Irish puppy factories. This figure does not take into account the number of puppies born into backyard breeders, illegal puppy farmers or registered sellers which, according to the DSPCA, is around 70,000 per year. This poor...

Seanad: Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 (Section 4(2)) (Scheme Termination Date) Order 2024: Motion (15 Feb 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...in their conduct on social media. It is important that elected representatives, or those who are seeking to be elected representatives, show leadership in the community. It is important that Drogheda does not become the next Roscrea, or anywhere where something like that has happened.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...little here again but these programmes are on our national broadcaster. They are freely available. Advertisements are run, sometimes even from Government, and they are allowed into our schools. Does this area need much more regulation because some of these advertisements are potentially quite harmful? That would take an enormous shift in thinking among educators and the powers that be...