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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: The Minister has said on numerous occasions - I agree with him - that the Bill is about providing clarity for women and medical practitioners. I think he said last evening that we should use the terminology of the Constitution, the X case and the expert report. In relation to the tests to be applied, the report of the expert group on the judgment in the X case, at page 30, paragraph 6.2,...

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. 27 In page 9, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following:“(5) Where the unborn may be potentially viable outside the womb, every effort must be made to sustain its life after delivery.”.

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 of State, in dealing with this matter, indicates that we are not in a position to instruct medical practitioners or to interfere in best medical practice. The amendments that I have tabled are administrative amendments. They do not seek to instruct a medical practitioner. If the Minister of State reads the amendments and the section we are referring to, "forwarding 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 have tabled amendments Nos. 24 to 26, inclusive, which are similar to Deputy Ó Caoláin's amendment No. 23.  I understand the point that the Minister is making but we want to ensure there is appreciation of the urgency required in dealing with these matters.  Inserting "forthwith" would indicate the need for urgency in dealing with this section.

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. 22: In page 9, line 12, after “shall,” to insert “only”.This amendment is intended to further clarify the situation by including the word "only". It clarifies that the consultation takes place only with the woman's agreement.

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. 14: In page 8, between lines 27 and 28, to insert the following: “CHAPTER 1 Medical treatment lawful under this ActInevitable miscarriage 7. It shall be lawful to carry out a medical procedure in respect of a pregnant woman 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...

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 wish to comment on amendments Nos. 12 and 13. Generally I am in favour of regulations being laid before the Houses prior to implementation, but not in this case.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Séamus Healy: I thought this was an additional explanatory amendment and I am surprised the Minister is not in a position to accept it. In the circumstances, I agree to withdraw the amendment, reserving the right to re-enter it on Report Stage.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Séamus Healy: I move amendment No. 4: In page 6, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following:" "inevitable miscarriage” means the inevitable failure of pregnancy and death of a foetus, up to that stage of pregnancy at which, if born, it would be capable of life outside the womb;".

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Séamus Healy: I move amendment No. 5: In page 6, lines 30 and 31, to delete "which has regard to the need to preserve unborn human life as far as practicable" and substitute the following:"which has regard to the need to preserve unborn human life as far as practicable and with due regard to the right to life of the woman".The purpose of the amendment is to include in the section a reference to "due regard...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Séamus Healy: I understand and, indeed, respect the position that the Minister and Minister of State have put forward. However, I do not accept it. Other members have indicated that a previous Attorney General took a completely different view and invited the European court to take that view. Indeed, other eminent legal persons currently are of the view that, in the case of fatal foetal abnormality, it...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Séamus Healy: The Minister has given an assurance that there will be no delay in the implementation of the Act, so I will withdraw my amendment and reserve the right to table it on Report Stage.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Séamus Healy: I move amendment No. 2: In page 6, between lines 1 and 2, to insert the following:" "consent" means consent obtained freely without threats or inducements, where the medical practitioner—(a) is satisfied that the woman is capable of understanding the nature, purpose and likely effects of the proposed treatment, and (b) has given the woman adequate information, in a form and language...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Séamus Healy: On the basis of what the Minister has said, I will withdraw the amendment, but I may table it again on Report Stage if necessary.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Séamus Healy: I move amendment No. 3: In page 6, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following:" "fatal foetal abnormality" means a medical condition suffered by a foetus such that it is incompatible with life outside the womb;".These amendments relate to the question of inevitable miscarriage and fatal foetal abnormality. These are very important issues that are not dealt with in the Bill. They could...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Séamus Healy: I move amendment No. 1: In page 5, lines 15 to 17, to delete all words from and including “on” in line 15 down to and including “provisions” in line 17 and substitute “not later than 30 days following enactment”.The purpose of this amendment is to give clarity to the time of implementation of the Bill. Given that the background to the Bill extends...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Séamus Healy: Can the Minister give an indicative timescale for implementation of the Bill? I accept that he does not want significant delays.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2013)

Séamus Healy: I welcome and support this legislation which is limited and restrictive. This is a sensitive issue which is very difficult for some people to deal with - indeed for many people. The expert report expressed this well when it stated that abortion is a difficult, painful issue in this country and elsewhere. It also observed that the reasons are not hard to understand; intense ethical,...

Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Jun 2013)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Private Members’ motion and the Minister’s U-turn on teaching supports for students with special needs. For me, this U-turn means people power works. This is the second occasion with this Minister where people power has worked, the first being his U-turn on DEIS schools. Word has gone out among the public that it can defeat this...

An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Jun 2013)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this legislation. Historically the socialist movement has favoured a unicameral, or single-chamber, legislature based on universal adult suffrage. It has opposed second chambers based on restricted franchise or hereditary privilege, as is the case with the British House of Lords. This position is based on the principle of an equal say in government for...