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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Thank you, Professor Binchy. I now invite Mrs. Justice McGuinness to respond.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I advise Senator Walsh he has asked that question previously.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I remind members to be brief, please, in order to be fair to their colleagues.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: We now have a 20 minutes session for non-members of the committee to ask questions. Eleven non-members have indicated a wish to speak and ask a question. It will not be possible to hear all 11 in 20 minutes. I ask Deputies and Senators to be brief and to ask a question rather than make a speech.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I ask those who would like to ask supplementary questions to be brief.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I apologise for missing Deputy Catherine Byrne in the beginning.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Could we demur from engaging in insults? I wish to clarify for Senator Crown that Professor Binchy's quotation was from an article in The Irish Times, which is covered in full in the presentation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I accept that. To be fair to Professor Binchy, he has referenced an article from The Irish Times.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Seven members wish to speak and there is half an hour remaining, so I ask members to be precise and concise.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I propose to take questions from speakers in blocks of four.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I should point out that Professor Binchy is here also as an eminent academic.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Five other speakers have also indicated.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: As Professor Binchy knows and as per page 8 of the expert group report, the only brief that the Minister gave the group was to deal with the requirements set by the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights and to advise the Government on how to give effect to existing constitutional provisions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Committee members have 60 minutes in which to contribute. Deputy Kelleher is first. He has three minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I now call on Mrs. Justice Catherine McGuinness. I thank her for coming before the committee because I know she had an accident recently. If she wishes, she may sit when she addresses the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I remind members, witnesses, members of the media and those in the Visitors' Gallery to please ensure that mobile phones are switched off for the duration of this meeting, because they interfere with the broadcasting equipment even when they are in silent mode. Everyone present is very welcome to this afternoon's hearing. This is the seventh session in the series of hearings that the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank Dr. Brady and Mr. O'Hare for attending.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: It was Dr. Brady and not Mr. O'Hare.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: At this juncture, I acknowledge the presence in the Gallery of a former Member of the House and former Minister, Ms Gemma Hussey. She is very welcome.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: That is not relevant to our hearings today.