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After a series of private meetings to agree a work plan, the Committee held its first public meeting on 13th June 2023. Videos and PDF transcripts of all committee debates are publicly available on the Oireachtas website here.
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(L-R: Senator Rónán Mullen, Deputy Peter Fitzpatrick, Professor Tom Hutchinson) Oireachtas Life and Dignity Group hosts event on Whole Person Care with Professor Tom Hutchinson Dr Tom Hutchinson, Professor in the Department of Medicine and the Department of Oncology at McGill University (Montreal, Canada), presented a briefing on Whole Person Care to the All Party…
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Self Help Africa’s Ronan Scully received the 6th Oireachtas Human Dignity Award at a ceremony in Leinster House on Thursday, 1st December 2022. The award is presented by the Oireachtas Human Dignity Group to a person or group whose commitment to the promotion of human dignity is exemplary. Ronan Scully is being honoured for his…
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The Leinster House event was hosted by the All Party Oireachtas Life and Dignity Group A cross-party audience of TDs and Senators attended an event in Leinster House today, titled ‘Caring for Us as We Age: A Proactive Approach on Nursing Homes’. Professor Des O’Neill, a consultant geriatrician at Tallaght University Hospital and Peamount Healthcare…
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The All Party Oireachtas Life and Dignity Group hosted an event on 3 March 2022 which covered pertinent issues surrounding the present operation of legal abortion in Ireland. The Group was spurred on to organise this meeting due to recent events such as the ongoing three-year review of the 2018 Abortion Act and the recent…
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Carol Nolan, the co-chair of the All Party Oireachtas Life and Dignity Group has said that “despite the Government’s move today to try and block the Foetal Pain Relief Bill from progressing past Second Stage”, she is “extremely encouraged by the support we have received in recent days from Oireachtas colleagues regarding the bill.” Earlier…
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The meeting was organised as a means of raising awareness amongst Oireachtas members of the epidemic of global human trafficking and its impact on Ireland. The impetus for the All-Party Oireachtas Life and Dignity Group to organise this event was the release in June of the US Department of State’s annual ‘Trafficking in Persons Report’.…
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The Oireachtas Life and Dignity Group held an event on Thursday, 18th March on policy changes needed in the area of education of children with Down Syndrome. The event was hosted by Sean Canney TD and presentations were made to the meeting by Martin McBreen and Carina O’Riodain, both parents of children with Down Syndrome.…
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Peter Fitzpatrick TD, Carol Nolan TD, Senator Rónán Mullen, Senator Sharon Keogan and Mattie McGrath TD at the launch today of a report on late-term abortion and foetal pain from the All Party Oireachtas Life and Dignity Group. The All-Party Oireachtas Life and Dignity Group this morning published a comprehensive new report on the issue…