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YouTube: Hugh O’Connell
A LABOUR SENATOR has made an emotional appeal to colleagues to cease using what she said is “disgraceful” language as the debate on the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill continues.
Marie Moloney said that there were young children sitting in the Seanad public gallery and those listening at home who would be shocked by the language and revealed her own crisis pregnancy where she lost a baby.
“The phraseology that is being used in here today is absolutely disgraceful,” she said, visibly upset as she appealed to the chair of the upper house to “stop this kind of talking here, there is no need for it.”
Shortly after that, Fianna Fáil senator Jim Walsh – whose graphic desceription of abortions caused controversy earlier this week – apologised if Maloney was upset but said that he was not sorry “if people cannot stomach the graphic nature, that’s the reality of it”.
He was then challenged by Labour senator John Gilroy on a point of order:
YouTube: Hugh O’Connell
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The Mercy has been overwhelmed for a very long time now, this was inevitable. There have been documented accounts of fights at the front door and violence inside the A&E. Overcrowding in the A&E and lack of beds is only going to escalate tensions and potential conflict. A review now is insulting a very much too little too late. I feel sorry for the staff having to deal with this, it’s very much not an isolated incident. Management, the HSE and the minister need a proper response to this, not a short term fix. RIP to Mr Healy and sympathies to his family, horrendous news.
Typiclal Union attempting to score points. Show some respect ffs
@SquideyeMagpie: The INMO has highlighted this issue well before this incident. There has been 33000 assaults on nurses in the last 7 years.
@Maria: Sick society.
It saddens me that this type of violence has crossed over into our Hospitals and the safety of those nurses and doctors is further put at risk. We all know this has been a long time coming, from drunks overcrowding A&E’s to drug addicts to mental health issues. But yet the priority by the I.N.M.O. and Phil Ní Sheaghdha is solely pay ( I totally get and support the pay issue), whereas the priority should surely be about safe working conditions and safety for patients. Are issues like safety, recruitment, i.e. more staff, agencies and the training and keeping of more nurses. Are safety conditions not more worthy of strike action than pay. It is not that the H.S.E. and I.N.M.O. etc don’t know what the problems are, it is that they don’t want to be bothered by trying to find a solution. E.G. Last week the HSE paid out E31m in compensation in a birth case, which has been an ongoing issue for years but it keeps on happening, that money and the excessive amounts paid to recruitment agencies could be pumped back into Health. Two weeks ago
Perhaps Minister Neale Richmond could do what Damien English failed to do and challenge the injunction Top Security have opposing the ERO for security workers who are stuck on €11.65/h since 2019
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