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

Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach said this morning that he wanted to get rid of this tonight. Those are the words he used. We are getting lectures all night about unsuitable descriptions. He wanted to get rid of it. It is a farce that we are sitting here. The Minister for Health could not come to the hearings of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children for more than 12 minutes but he says he...

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

Mattie McGrath: He never replies to us. He spent 12 minutes at the committee hearing, which was an insult to all those who came forward.

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

Mattie McGrath: What about the whistleblower legislation?

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

Mattie McGrath: He is entitled to have his say.

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

Mattie McGrath: He is being interrupted.

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

Mattie McGrath: Good man, Peter.

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

Mattie McGrath: I have a point of order.

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

Mattie McGrath: Two too many at that.

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

Mattie McGrath: In particular, my input is directed to amendment No. 23. I compliment the bravery, understanding and research of colleagues across the floor who cannot accept the decision based on the X case. It was a flawed judgment. Anybody who sat through our committee hearings understands that. It is the one thing that emerged. The Supreme Court in the X case heard no proper legal arguments on...

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

Mattie McGrath: A further contradiction is that where a person facing deportation claims suicide, it is to no avail. A person that is suicidal needs treatment. Abortion is the last treatment any pregnant woman needs. It is not a treatment in any shape or form for a person suffering stress and trauma. A woman needs to be treated and to have a health care plan worked out. In the fullness of time,...

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

Mattie McGrath: The amendment relates to the Title which is false and erroneous in the extreme. It should be called what it is.

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

Mattie McGrath: It is not about the protection of life during pregnancy. It is about the deliberate killing of unborn children.

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

Mattie McGrath: It should be called the termination of pregnancy Bill.

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

Mattie McGrath: Obviously, the Bill is rushed and could not be done fast enough. The Minister is going to stay here all night but now we find out that the arrangements for the institutions are not even made. I know that from my hospital in south Tipperary. No one knows what is happening but the general threat is that hospitals which do not conform to and perform the Bill’s provisions will be...

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

Mattie McGrath: Of course it is being rushed.

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

Mattie McGrath: This morning the Taoiseach said he wanted to get rid of the Bill before tonight. What does the Minister call that?

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

Mattie McGrath: These amendments are using words lightly and glibly. We were told by Women Hurt by Abortion, a group which was not allowed to give its evidence at the committee hearings on the Bill, that they would have lied and claimed they were suicidal. This is just playing with words and semantics. I think it is very distasteful.

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

Mattie McGrath: I wish to seek clarification.

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

Mattie McGrath: This morning I received a letter in which the Ceann Comhairle stated he regretted that he had to inform me that amendment No. 3 would have to be ruled out of order as it was declaratory in nature. Will the Leas-Cheann Comhairle explain what that means?

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

Mattie McGrath: I would also like to refer to amendments Nos. 48 and 72. The Minister is here today, although that he was held up and arrived late. He was not held up the morning of the committee hearings. He arrived in and we expected to have a robust debate with him that morning, as we had with the other contributors who had given honest speeches. The Minister read out a script and he fled out of the...