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

Clare Daly: This is primarily a health matter and concerns a medical opinion. The status and qualification of the medical practitioners is particularly relevant. The amendments seek to broaden the remit as to what defines an appropriate medical practitioner. Given that it is a relatively routine procedure in terms of termination and where suicide is a risk, it is a medical opinion which in any other...

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

Clare Daly: I have it and I will read it out in a minute.

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

Clare Daly: I am glad to be able to assist the Minister of State because, unlike him, I have access to the expert group's report.

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

Clare Daly: Section 6.4 of the report, on the number and role of doctors, states: "it was generally considered that two doctors with the relevant training and expertise appropriate to the case would be sufficient for making a clinical decision as to the risk to the life of the woman, whether the risk arose because of a physical or mental health condition." I appreciate that obstetricians can play a role...

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

Clare Daly: The previous speaker has given a very good illustration of why this matter should be left out of the hands of politicians and treated for what it is, a health matter that should be adjudicated on between women and their doctors. We should remind ourselves of why we are here and why we are in this mess. It is precisely because the Constitution equates the life of a woman with that of an...

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

Clare Daly: I refer to the facts given about Britain because they have been used and bandied about in the media. The argument is that the 1967 Act allows abortion under the suicide clause. That is not the case. Under the 1967 Abortion Act, 90% of the abortions are on the basis of ground C which deals with pregnancies under 24 weeks, where the continuation of a pregnancy involves a risk greater than if...

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

Clare Daly: When we introduced our Bill, I was asked if the Minister would bring forward legislation and I said I believed he would. I am glad that is so. I recognise that this is important symbolically and that for the first time we are legislating for abortion in Ireland. After today, however, it is not the symbolism at which we must look but the details of the Bill and what is contained in it. In...

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

Clare Daly: It is very difficult at this stage after 11 hours of debate to keep it together but this group of amendments is particularly important, given that they deal with the areas of fatal foetal abnormality, the issue of inevitable miscarriage and critically, in my opinion, the new definition of the unborn which unless it is amended will give rise to serious problems in the future. Without...

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

Clare Daly: The Minister of State can correct me in his report.

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

Clare Daly: I apologise. I did not realise the Minister of State was infallible. In his opinion he thought that was all that could be done-----

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

Clare Daly: I am quite happy to correct the record of the House, to say that in the opinion of the Minister of State, he thought that this was all that could-----

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

Clare Daly: That is okay. He said I misquoted him-----

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

Clare Daly: I have corrected it. I know that everyone is getting a little bit tetchy as it is late in the night.

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

Clare Daly: I quoted earlier from the expert group which backed up my viewpoint and not his but I will quote again so that he will have no misapprehension-----

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

Clare Daly: He should do that. However, can we deal with the facts of the almost 1,600 families who experience fatal foetal abnormalities every year in this State? That issue has touched the hearts of all of us, including the Minister of State. It is the question of what we can do and to do it. If it is the Minister of State's contention - which I believe it is - that he is lawfully permitted to go...

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

Clare Daly: It is really derogatory of the families facing this situation. If the Minister of State wishes to continue interrupting we have quite an amount of time. However, I want to deal with this State's obligation, under human rights law and the intervention of the State's human rights watchdog, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties which has said that there is an onus on us to go further in this...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights Issues (10 Jul 2013)

Clare Daly: 29. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to improve the level of compliance with Labour Court recommendations with particular reference to where State agencies are involved. [33282/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland Issues (10 Jul 2013)

Clare Daly: 60. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if in view of recent revelations by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary that the Northern Ireland historical enquiries team, HET, failed properly to investigate crimes committed by the British military, and in view of the fact that the HET and PSNI have relentlessly pursued confidential tapes held at Boston College...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (10 Jul 2013)

Clare Daly: 77. To ask the Minister for Finance if in the event of the Irish Nationwide loan book transferring to the National Asset Management Agency, individual mortgage holders would not have protection from the Ombudsman or the code of conduct on mortgage arrears. [33709/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Complaints Procedures (10 Jul 2013)

Clare Daly: 133. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is the case that complaints regarding staff members in a secondary or primary school can be fully and wholly investigated under the complaints procedure if the concerned student has already left or finished in that school. [33637/13]