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Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Séamus Healy: This group of amendments includes Nos. 35, 37, 64, 108 and 110 in my name. The purpose of my proposals is to include in the legislation the full test in the X case judgment by adding the words "which may be neither immediate or inevitable" in the various sections. The objective here is to clarify for clinicians and for women the exact position as set out in the X case decision. I do not...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Séamus Healy: The ordering of the debate by the Government is bizarre. It brings the Oireachtas into disrepute and is an insult to Members and the public generally. Any reasonable person would have adjourned the debate to tomorrow. I have supported the legislation on Second and Committee Stages and will support it later this morning when a division is called. However, it is limited and restrictive...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Unethical Organ Harvesting in China: Discussion (10 Jul 2013)

Séamus Healy: I thank the Chairman for giving me the opportunity to speak, as I am not a member of the committee. I apologise for my late arrival, but I was at another meeting. I have been kept up to date on this issue by a constituent from Cashel. I have one question, which may have been covered. What specific steps are the delegates asking the committee and the Government to take on this issue?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Message to Dáil (10 Jul 2013)

Séamus Healy: I wish to be associated with Deputy Naughten's objection.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

Séamus Healy: The Minister should be careful about what he says.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

Séamus Healy: Always.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

Séamus Healy: Always.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

Séamus Healy: The Minister can doubt me if he likes, but it has always been done that way.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

Séamus Healy: From my experience and that of other Members in the Houses, as well as the response from Ms McGuinness, it seems clear that people with medical conditions are being targeted in order to implement a reduction of 40,000 cards that was in last year's budget.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

Séamus Healy: Ms McGuinness has indicated that a doctor considers these applications but that has always been the case, or at least it was always the case in south Tipperary. The cards were granted by a doctor. It is now certain that it is almost impossible to get a discretionary card on medical grounds and unfortunately, the only way to get a card urgently is if a GP certifies in writing that a...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

Séamus Healy: I stated it was so in south Tipperary. Do not attribute a comment to me that I did not make.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

Séamus Healy: The Minister should not attribute a comment to me that I did not make.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

Séamus Healy: If Ms McGuinness is going to deal with the question of medical cards, we want to see it dealt with properly and fully because everyone around this table knows what is happening. People aged between 65 and 69 are being targeted and their cards are being removed because they are marginally over the threshold but they have medical conditions because of which they have had cards for years. It...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

Séamus Healy: When this Government was elected, there was a genuine feeling among the public that we were about to get a significantly improved health service. Of course, that was on the back of the Minister, Deputy Reilly, and the current Taoiseach travelling the country, making commitments in regard to improvements in the service. There is no doubt the previous Government had created serious...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Séamus Healy: The Minister of State, Deputy Alex White, seems to take the view that the meaning of the term "unborn" would specifically change the position, that the amendment tabled by some Deputies in respect of the "unborn" is one which would affect this particular amendment on fatal foetal abnormalities. I have some sympathy for his view of the term "unborn". I do not have that amendment tabled. The...

Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Jul 2013)

Séamus Healy: Farce.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Séamus Healy: I rise to speak to the group of amendments, of which Nos. 10, 11, 30 and 81 are in my name. Provision in respect of fatal foetal abnormality and inevitable miscarriage should and could be included in the Bill within the terms of the Constitution. The group Terminations for Medical Reasons have pleaded with the Oireachtas to deal with the tragic issue of fatal foetal abnormality. These are...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Séamus Healy: I thank everybody for his or her courteous engagement in this process during the hearings in January, the discussions on the heads of the Bill, Second Stage in the Chamber and Committee Stage. As Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin stated, it is a difficult, sensitive and emotive issue, but, as I stated on Second Stage, it needs to be addressed urgently. I confirm my support for the Bill.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Séamus Healy: I move amendment No. 89: In page 18, after line 3, to insert the following: “Offences of threat, harassment, endangerment and false imprisonment 24. (1) In the case of a person who, without lawful excuse, makes to another a threat, by any means intending the other to believe it will be carried out, to kill or cause serious harm to--(a) a woman as a result of her having sought to obtain...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Séamus Healy: The Minister referred to the Irish Medical Council guidelines and indicated that he has not found an area in which the doctor is obliged to report. The problem is that the report may not be made by a medical practitioner. It could be any category of individual. That in itself is no guarantee that a report will not be made. The Minister stated that he wants to send out a message to young...