Results 3,241-3,260 of 4,465 for speaker:Jim Walsh
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: -----in many countries. That is a late-term abortion.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: Let me finish. That is legal in other countries.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: I am not being repetitive. I never mentioned that.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: You have not been chairing these meetings, a Chathaoirligh.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: I must say I am unhappy. You were not here when I discussed these issues, as the Leas-Chathaoirleach was in the Chair.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: Perhaps those late-term abortions would not be allowed. If they are not to be allowed, will the Minister point out the part of the Bill forbidding them? What assurances can we get that this barbaric practice will not be allowed to happen, as it is in many countries where abortion is available? If it is allowed to happen, surely it would be an inhumane act, and the pain inflicted on the...
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: I find that an appalling but unsurprising reply from the Minister. As part of the untruths that have been perpetrated on the nation and members of his own party for the past number of months, presumably scripted for him by people in his Department, it sanitises what is happening. He failed to say clearly what type of medical procedures will be allowed. His failure clearly indicates that...
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: The Minister may wish to reply to Senator Healy Eames.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: I heard that. The Minister's silence speaks volumes. It has been more instructive than anything he has actually said to the House today. It clearly indicates the various forms of abortion practised in other countries will now be practised in Ireland.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: I hope the Minister will reflect on what he heard and that it might make him re-examine the evil outcome of this Bill. It would be wonderful if he did so and told the Labour Party where to go in regard to the Bill. However, the Minister is not accepting amendment No. 4, which goes to the core of the Bill. It would have a significant effect on the application of section 9, which is totally...
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: Article 40.3.3°, which we are not meeting.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: I know exactly the amendment I am on. I have been reminded of Article 40.3.3°. Section 9 is repugnant to the Constitution.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: Is the Minister prepared to take us into his confidence and tell us precisely what advice he received from the Attorney General? That has been kept a closely guarded secret. It is impossible to visualise how any Attorney General could say what the Minister is doing is constitutional. Could he tell us what the constitutional advice was?
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: This is my first time speaking on it.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: Is the Minister prepared to answer the question?
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: I am sorry if Senator Moloney was upset. That was not my intention.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: However, I am not sorry if people on the other side cannot stomach the graphic nature of the unfortunate reality.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: If this arises in the future - I do not think it will - I will give advance notice of what I am going to say.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: This is offensive to anybody who is pushing this Bill.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Jim Walsh: Amendment No. 7 is a very short amendment which proposes, in page 7, line 7, after "life," to insert "for the purposes of this Act." As somebody who believes as a principle that human life is inviolate from conception to natural death, I want to clarify that the definition in this Bill only applies to this Bill and does not have any wider connotations. This part would then read...