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Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: The amendment imposes a duty to minimise pain for the unborn child where appropriate and practical. Yet, we seem to have some pushback with this. Most people would understand the scientific definition that an unborn child is an individual, living, human being. Science will tell us there is a physical and biomedical response to injury and research shows us that pain and stress may affect the...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: Support the amendment then.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: A Cheann Comhairle, please.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: Deputy Byrne is worried that many Fianna Fáilers are not happy with the way the party is going at the moment. That is why he is attacking me.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: Deputy Micheál Martin has gone a far distance away from Fianna Fáil's base.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: We are a couple of minutes into the debate and the name-calling, etc. has started. Just two nights ago, a Deputy was reduced to tears as a result of the level of aggression in the Chamber. Character assassination, sneering and name-calling do not constitute political debate, they represent an effort to close down discussion and censor people.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: That type of behaviour should stop. One of the reasons I oppose abortion is because of its effect on minorities. Someone from a low-income family who is female and has a disability is far more likely to be aborted. Abortion is an inequality. People who do not believe that information should look at the Guttmacher Institute's website, which is a pro-choice site. It shows that minorities...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: It is very clear that abortion rates have soared in respect of cases involving disability in every country that has gone down this road. Unless other Deputies think Irish people are morally superior-----

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: -----to their counterparts in Britain, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, France and Germany, the same will happen here. The only reason they could vote against an amendment such as this is because they prioritise access to abortion in all circumstances.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: Why was I asked to join Fianna Fáil if the Deputy has a problem with my political past?

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: Deputy Dooley asked me.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: We are two minutes in, a Cheann Comhairle and the Deputies opposite are calling names again. It is incredible that we cannot have a debate without calling names.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: The effort to call names is to try to close down-----

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: Yes.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: That is not what the amendment states at all.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: There is a dispute here about whether abortion happens on the basis of gender. It is estimated that there are 100 million missing women in the world today due to gender selective abortion and infanticide. To give Deputy Chambers some of the facts in that regard, I note that in China the sex ratio for the generation born between 1985 and 1989 was 108 men for every 100 women. By the...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: It has been mentioned here that the three-day wait was brought in as a political sop to a certain extent to the Tánaiste, Deputy Coveney. That is quite obvious. It was an effort to get the Tánaiste over the line with regard to a Bill that he probably did not agree with at the start. There was a question about the rationale for this three-day wait. The rationale is that there are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (28 Nov 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: I propose that we go into private session to deal with a number of items before we deal with the main item on the agenda.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (28 Nov 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: The committee has been notified of communications regarding two legislative proposals by the European Union and both of these are being considered as schedule B proposals. COM (2018) 717 is a proposal to amend annexes 2 and 3 of the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds, AEWA, administered by the United Nations Environment Programme, to which Ireland is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: National Famine Commemoration Day Bill 2017: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: The main item of business is the National Famine Commemoration Day Bill 2017, which provides for the commemoration of the Great Famine, the establishment of a national Famine commemoration day and related matters. It is a Private Members' Bill sponsored by Deputy Brophy and it was referred to this committee by the Dáil in 2017. At our meeting of 14 November, the committee decided to...