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Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (1 May 2024)

Rónán Mullen: ...be to provide for a GP with a conscientious objection to the provision of the service in question who does not want to be in any way, shape or form to be used in the context of any threat by the Garda of prosecution or any attempt to move people on - people who are engaging in legitimate and respectful freedom of expression - in order that there would not be anomalous situation whereby a...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (1 May 2024)

Rónán Mullen: ...freedom of expression on the grounds that certain other people may profess to be offended, hurt or wounded by it. It is entirely possible to make clear, and this has been said on many occasions by Garda authorities, that in respect of any wrongdoing that arises in the context of these protests, and we are living in an era of protest and an era where there is a lot of debate about the...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (1 May 2024)

Rónán Mullen: .... The Minister has a document from the HSE and he has not quoted a single medical practitioner here today. On Committee Stage I quoted to the Minister - and will quote again now - that the Garda Commissioner made it clear some years ago there was no need for extra law. If I recall correctly, the Commissioner said the law was there in the Statute Book to deal with anything that would...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (1 May 2024)

Sharon Keogan: ...and by pleasing people along the way. The Minister does not seem to have made any effort to listen to the other voices in this. Also, he has failed to publish any evidence he has had from An Garda Síochána or any other advice he had.

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (1 May 2024)

Rónán Mullen: ...point of view. The idea that the Government can do anything to restrict behaviour that was previously legitimate or restrict freedoms, including freedom of expression, has many people worried. This legislation is not supported by the Garda and cannot be said to be required in any way by the Garda. There is no basis for it in the context of the Government producing evidence of instances...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (1 May 2024)

Sharon Keogan: ...challenge the severity of the Bill. The Bill remains inherently discriminatory and is, therefore, unacceptable in a supposedly democratic republic. It has been pointed out several times that even Garda Commissioner Drew Harris felt that specific safe zone access areas legislation was gratuitous due to the existence of public order laws. This very rational and correct observation by the...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (1 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...to make sure that people could march through Dublin. I received clear assurance that would be compliant with the law because no offence can be committed until a formal warning has been issued by a Garda. For example, if marchers decided they were only going to march around the Rotunda, then clearly that is a protest affecting people walking in and out of the Rotunda. No offence at that...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (1 May 2024)

Rónán Mullen: ...peaceful dissent and not democrats. He is not being a democrat with this legislation. He was warned about this and people pleaded with him. We tabled modest compromise amendments. We pointed out the flaws, the lack of evidence, the fact that the Garda said the legislation was not necessary, and the fact that hospitals in Limerick and Cork stated there was no problem here. We pointed...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (1 May 2024)

Rónán Mullen: ...it were rare, have a problem with the legislation because they are at least democrats. They would say that they are not on board with peaceful people, even if they are men, being targeted by the Garda. That is not just because gardaí are busy trying to deal with real challenges in our society but because this should not be the business of the Garda when it has told the Minister we...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (1 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...been a noteworthy few months in Seanad Éireann. I take the opportunity to express my appreciation to our colleagues in the HSE, the Office of the Attorney General, the Department of Justice and An Garda Síochána for their considerable input into this process. I wish to place on the record my appreciation for the considerable contributions of the Together for Safety team;...