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Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: Yes, so I can submit it on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: It is almost 6.50 p.m.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: I move amendment No. 41In page 9, line 10, to delete “A termination of pregnancy” and substitute “An abortion”.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: Does it involve consultants?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: I wish to speak briefly on the issue of "serious harm". The phrase is used twice as it is used again at line 35 on page 9. We also believe it should be deleted and have tabled an amendment to that effect. The matter is subjective in that one doctor might consider it to be serious harm to one's health if one's fallopian tube does not work again and another might consider that to be a...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: The more we discuss this and the more I hear from the Minister, the more I am convinced that these two words "serious risk" are very subjective and dangerous to leave in the Bill. We must remove them.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: I am sorry, it is tiredness. The words are "serious harm". Thinking of myself, who decides for me whether it is serious harm to my health? We would never say to a bloke that his health is not as important to him as his life. It is verging on sexism to say that a woman's holistic health, mental and physical, is not very important and that somebody who examines her has to decide that there...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: That is not the question. The question is what the Minister is defining.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: The doctor might well say there are other ways of doing it.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: The Chairman may be getting tired now too.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: I twitched.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: My grouping is not represented on the health committee. Would it be possible for one of our members to attend the meeting?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: Six days ago, we saw one of the most historic actions to be taken on a global scale by Google workers in Tokyo, New York, Dublin, Berlin, London and many other cities that were not mentioned. Tens of thousands walked off the job in protest over sexual harassment. It is little known that their other demands were for normal things such as pay equality, workers' representation on the board and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: The Government may have accepted the report but the people on the front line have not. I do not know if the Minister has looked at the details of the Public Service Pay Commission that is dealing with nurses. Nurses in certain specialties will get an extra €7 a week. One would not buy two pints of beer with that pay increase. It is an absolute insult to them and it is only certain...

Public Service Superannuation (Age of Retirement) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: I would like to refer to the wider attack on ageing and work. The human race, in the first world, is living longer but that is sometimes seen as a problem rather than as something to be celebrated. I do not know how often in my short time as a Deputy I have talked about pensions, retirement, attacks on defined benefit pensions, a move to defined contributions and companies, such as Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Protected Disclosures (7 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: 83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to a protected disclosure regarding Waterford and Wexford Education Training Board; and the steps he will take to ensure the person is protected in this case (details supplied). [46079/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Safety (7 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: 137. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 180 to 182, inclusive, of 3 October 2018, if clarification of will be provided and the specific questions asked answered (details supplied). [46099/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Protected Disclosures (8 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: 78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a protected disclosure is not being enacted (details supplied). [46293/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (8 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: 264. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when correspondence will issue to pensioners who have the State pension (contributory) to inform them of proposed changes; and if this will be expedited within the original timeframe [46170/18]

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: I am watching what is happening here very carefully. It is as anyone could have easily predicted, namely, amendments that are full of bigotry and misunderstanding are being presented to us in long texts - reading some of them is like reading War and Peace- and we then bicker and fight over them, thereby delaying what we are here to do, that is, legislate for the result of a democratic...