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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 am certainly disappointed by the responses given by the Minister and his Minister of State, Deputy White, on this matter. I do not accept that Article 40.3.3° of the Constitution obliges us to criminalise women in circumstances such as those we describe, and I do not believe the public wants us to criminalise them. There is widespread support across the Oireachtas for a change to...

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. 87: In page 17, line 25, after “person” to insert “, other than the pregnant woman concerned,”.This amendment relates to section 22. In my view, this section is anachronistic, inhumane and indefensible. It seeks to criminalise a woman who procures a termination other than under the terms of the Bill. It prescribes a term of imprisonment not...

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 do not want to be prescriptive. The reason for the amendment is to ensure all appropriate institutions will be in a position to provide the services and procedures provided for in the Bill. I accept there are difficulties. At the very least, we need an assurance from the Minister that he is satisfied each and every appropriate institution covered in the Bill will be in a position to...

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: On the basis of what the Minister has said, I will accept his assurance that it will be possible to have the procedures available in all appropriate institutions. On that basis, I will withdraw the amendment.

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. 82: In page 15, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following:“20. The Executive shall, for the purpose of monitoring and collecting data on the performance of medical clinical procedures, collect information on the functioning of Chapters 1 and 2 of this Act in accordance with standard Hospital In-Patient Enquiry procedures recognised by the World Health...

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. 79: In page 14, to delete lines 28 to 30 and substitute the following:"(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, it shall be the duty of every appropriate institution to ensure the necessary number and category of medical practitioners, nurses and midwives are made available and are not obstructed in the carrying out of such a medical procedure as are governed...

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. 68: In page 14, between lines 1 and 2, to insert the following:“15. The Executive shall, for the purpose of monitoring and collecting data on the performance of medical clinical procedures, collect information on the functioning of Chapters 1 and 2 of this Act in accordance with standard Hospital In-Patient Enquiry procedures recognised by the World Health...

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. 59: In page 12, line 27, to delete "The review committee shall," and substitute "Members of the review committee may, if necessary".This relates to the requirement for the review panel to examine the pregnant woman. While I would have no difficulty with this in the vast majority of cases and I would expect this to be the case, there may be cases where it would not be...

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 agree to withdraw the amendment. I will resubmit it on Report Stage in the hope that the Minister will come back to us with something on it.

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. 60: In page 12, line 31, after "risk" to insert ", which may be neither immediate nor inevitable,".

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. 63: In page 13, line 7, after "forward" to insert "forthwith".

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 acknowledge the points that the Minister has made and agree this should not be a desktop study. However, the Bill provides for an overall period of ten days and I do not think that reflects the urgency required under this section. This is a theme we have discussed in the context of previous amendments. Ten days is simply too long and it should be possible to shorten the period significantly.

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. 57: In page 12, line 25, to delete “7 days” and substitute “3 days”.

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. 52: In page 11, line 31, to delete "3 days" and substitute "1 day".The import of these amendments relates to the establishment of the review panel and the making of the relevant decision. The Bill as it stands provides for an overall period of ten days - three days for convening and seven days for the making of the decision. I take the view, which has been expressed...

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. 46: In page 10, after line 36, to insert the following: “Fatal foetal abnormality 10. (1) It shall be lawful to carry out a medical procedure in respect of a pregnant woman in accordance with this section in the course of which, or as a result of which, a pregnancy is ended, where--(a) the medical procedure is carried out by an obstetrician at an appropriate...

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. 47: In page 10, after line 36, to insert the following: “Duty of care 10. (1) A medical practitioner or medical institution, if contacted by a woman seeking treatment under the provisions of this Act, shall have a duty of care to that woman. Such duty of care shall include, but not be limited to--(a) an obligation to inform the woman as to the pathways of care to...

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 reserve the right to resubmit the amendment on Report Stage.

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. 49: In page 11, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following:"(3) A medical practitioner shall be disqualified from membership of the review panel where he or she has previously refused to perform an abortion on ground of conscientious objection and or has previously expressed publicly an opinion in general opposition to abortion in all its forms and or abortion as a...

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 confirm my support for this section. I reiterate that we want clarity for the women concerned and for the medical practitioners. I believe that could be enhanced by the inclusion in this section of the judgment in the X case on the phrase "which may be neither immediate nor inevitable" and the recommendation in section 6.4.1 of the expert group's report for two doctors. This section and...

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 would like to comment on the amendments in my name, which I accept cannot be moved if the Minister's amendment is accepted. This legislation arises from the X case judgment. There are certain tests outlined in that judgment. One of the tests referred to, namely, that it is not necessary for medical practitioners to be of the opinion that the risk to the woman's life is inevitable or...