Results 8,101-8,120 of 9,387 for speaker:Jim O'Callaghan
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)
Jim O'Callaghan: Did the Tánaiste ever reflect on why she was sent this email on 15 May 2015?
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)
Jim O'Callaghan: The Tánaiste was sent this email so that she could either give a green light or a red light to the strategy proposed. I am telling the Tánaiste what the Taoiseach said in the Dáil last week was he justified not doing anything because it happened after the event. We know now that is not correct. What the Taoiseach stated was, "The Department was not in a position, after the...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)
Jim O'Callaghan: The Taoiseach said on the Wednesday, "As the Department was informed after the fact, it was certainly not in a position to express any reservations about the legal strategy." The Tánaiste was informed about it before the fact. Why did she not do what the Taoiseach suggested could have been done? The Tánaiste could have expressed reservations about the legal strategy. She did not...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)
Jim O'Callaghan: The Tánaiste could have turned around and expressed concerns about what was happening. She could have counselled against it. The Tánaiste has told us she became aware of the email on Thursday. She never mentioned it to the Taoiseach. Did the Tánaiste ever mention that email to the Taoiseach? Who told him about that email? The Tánaiste did not tell him. The...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)
Jim O'Callaghan: Were there efforts made by others?
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)
Jim O'Callaghan: Did the Tánaiste tell the Taoiseach about it? She did not.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)
Jim O'Callaghan: Yes.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)
Jim O'Callaghan: The report in today's edition of The Irish Times that the Department of Justice and Equality email, which has been under consideration this week, was unearthed in the Department two weeks ago on 9 November is mind-boggling and adds another layer to the issues facing the Tánaiste. I want her to be clear as to the nature of the criticism we make of her. She will be aware that the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)
Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the witnesses for attending. They are to be commended on being able to have a rational and civilised discussion on this very emotive issue. I note Mr. Tom Curran stated he is aware that if a law is brought in, it must be in such a way that it cannot affect the vulnerable. He said that he wants a law brought in that would apply to people such as his late wife, Marie. How can this...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)
Jim O'Callaghan: Should there be a restriction on age? What have to be the exceptions? Mr. Curran mentioned earlier that a Bill had been drafted. I am sorry I have not had a chance to look at it. What grounds are in that Bill that would merit exemption from the prohibition on assisted suicide?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)
Jim O'Callaghan: Say I decide I want to end my life.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)
Jim O'Callaghan: Let us say I am squeamish and I do not want to commit suicide. Instead, I want to go to somewhere like Dignitas.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)
Jim O'Callaghan: With what type of illness would one draw the line?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)
Jim O'Callaghan: Who decides what is life-limiting?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)
Jim O'Callaghan: Would a doctor certify that Jim O'Callaghan has a life-limiting illness?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)
Jim O'Callaghan: That is the reason I am asking these questions. We are lawmakers. At the end of this process, we have to prepare a report and decide whether we recommend if there should be amendments to the Criminal Law (Suicide) Act. If we are going to do that, we have to set out a basis as to what should be the grounds for exemption from prosecution for assisted suicide. Obviously, Mr. Tom Curran has a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)
Jim O'Callaghan: If it is to be a life-limiting illness, how do we deal with somebody suffering from serious depression?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)
Jim O'Callaghan: I thank Professor Lewis for coming here to talk to us. While she is a professor of law, there is no reason that she should have any knowledge of Irish law. Under our Constitution, the courts have established there is no right to suicide in this country using the principle of unenumerated personal rights. An argument has been advanced that there is an issue of equality between individuals...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)
Jim O'Callaghan: The case of Pretty v. the United Kingdom was referred to by the Irish Supreme Court in the case involving Marie Fleming.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)
Jim O'Callaghan: There is no right to die under Article 2. It may be the case under the rights of private life under Article 8, as the professor has said, that states may be allowed to introduce laws in order to prevent an individual being distressed at the end of his or her life. Is that a general correct assessment of the situation?