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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)
Peter Mathews: -----that allows under-age girls to go to their GP and have an abortion without their parents' knowledge. They are realities.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)
Peter Mathews: It would be useful to hear that from the women themselves.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)
Peter Mathews: We should protect both lives.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)
Peter Mathews: It has a huge bearing. It was misleading.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)
Peter Mathews: I thank the witnesses for attending. I have a feeling this afternoon of great compassion, understanding, wisdom and professionalism. I thank them for that. I wish the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste were present for the hearings because this is their Bill.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)
Peter Mathews: I know. We are even on the Title of the Bill.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)
Peter Mathews: I wish the Minister for Health, the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste were here. They are in America celebrating 150 years of a Jesuit college but the focus for this country is the committee hearings.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)
Peter Mathews: One woman taking her life is too many. One baby’s life lost while we mess around with the law is too many. I fear not just one baby’s life will be lost but hundreds if we introduce the legislation under discussion. That is wrong.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)
Peter Mathews: To recap on this morning's and this afternoon's-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)
Peter Mathews: It is to ask a question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)
Peter Mathews: We know what the Constitution states; it is written in plain English.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)
Peter Mathews: We know the Supreme Court said that where there is a real and substantial threat to the life of a mother, it is legal for medical personnel from all disciplines - fire brigade officers, their executives, doctors, nurses and midwives, to do what needs to be done. We have heard also that where there is a threat or an intent of a distressed mother to be to take her own life, the answer is not a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)
Peter Mathews: Why are we following all these long, drawn-out avenues into wordy discussions when we know what we are about? Also, what was said about unsound mind is very true. Lawyers can play with words and say unsound mind only applies to writing wills. That is nonsense. Unsound mind is where there is stress, duress, sociological, personal and guilt coercion. Conscience is about clear knowledge and...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Adult Literacy and Numeracy Strategy (21 May 2013)
Peter Mathews: 323. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to include a specific commitment in the FET SOLAS Bill 2013 to develop a national adult literacy and numeracy strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23874/13]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)
Peter Mathews: I am delighted to have heard the truth as I see it, and as I have informed myself, from Ms Simons and Mr. Brady. I am less confident about the presentations of Dr. Mills and Mr. O'Connor. I feel they were too wordy and did not get to the essence of the point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)
Peter Mathews: I am allowed to express my feelings about what I have heard. I reiterate what I said yesterday. I think that-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)
Peter Mathews: For instance, one of the proposed amendments refers to the inclusion of certification that regard has been had to the right to life of the unborn. This wordiness is just the sort of stuff that justified things that happened in other horrific memory-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)
Peter Mathews: -----where legislation couched and presented what essentially was wrong.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)
Peter Mathews: It is obvious that we want to introduce good law if we are introducing law. The practice has been excellent. The guidelines and regulation have been excellent.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)
Peter Mathews: We need to ensure that political vanity does not get in the way of doing what is right.