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Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (20 Dec 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am speaking on the amendment. Does the Minister envisage any situation where the family home could be repossessed in the event of non-payment of property tax? Surely deferral schemes are there to prevent that happening. Will the Minister clarify whether he envisages the home being repossessed in situations where the property tax has not been paid for some time? Will that happen, given...

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (20 Dec 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister has stated the onus is on the local authority to write a cheque to the Revenue Commissioners. Is not likely that the local authority will use the proceeds from the property tax it will take in from others to pay this bill? Will this not just amount to a paper exercise, or does this matter? I like the point that houses for older people in voluntary housing associations will be...

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (20 Dec 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Will all those involved in the homes for the elderly scheme be exempt or only those above a certain age? It is very good that the Minister will exempt housing for those with special needs and there will be much support for this.

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (20 Dec 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister has stated the onus is on the local authority to write a cheque to the Revenue Commissioners. Is not likely that the local authority will use the proceeds from the property tax it will take in from others to pay this bill? Will this not just amount to a paper exercise, or does this matter? I like the point that houses for older people in voluntary housing associations will be...

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (20 Dec 2012)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Will all those involved in the homes for the elderly scheme be exempt or only those above a certain age? It is very good that the Minister will exempt housing for those with special needs and there will be much support for this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the witnesses for their clarity. Dr. Mahony referred to the legal uncertainty in the narrow, rare situations in which mothers' lives may be saved by terminations. We must frame legislation. What should be the parameters of this space, the narrow, rare situation that Dr. Mahony described, and how might we describe it in legislation in a way that would be helpful to medics? Dr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I have one question for Dr. McCaffrey. She referred to consultations with many of her colleagues around the country, who between them have approximately 280 years of experience and stated that in this regard she was unable to identify any consultant who had met a woman citing suicidal ideation as her reason for wanting to terminate her pregnancy. Given many of those consulted have also...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the witnesses for their forthright and helpful information. Can we get some more specifics about the cases that Professor McAuliffe had to refer to Britain as a result of the lack of legal clarity in the Republic of Ireland? What are the circumstances surrounding them? This could be helpful when we are framing the legislation because information could help us to narrow down and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank Dr. Brady for his presentation. Does the Irish Council for Civil Liberties hold a different position on foetal abnormality as opposed to fatal foetal abnormality? I ask that for a specific reason. Medics deal in probabilities and can also get it wrong. I am very conscious of a recent meeting with a mother who had been living in the UK. As I recall how she described it to me, when...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the two witnesses for their wisdom. It is clear from Professor Binchy's response to the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights that he believes Irish law can be clarified without legislation. If so, how would we make this an adequately safe context for medical practitioners to carry out their practices and also for pregnant women in difficulty, bearing in mind that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the witnesses. My question is to Mr. Nugent and Ms Good. Given that we know a baby can with appropriate supports live outside the womb from 24 weeks onwards, where is the human right and respect for the foetus if the X case sets absolutely no limits in this regard and how can they, according to their ethical beliefs, justify this? Where is the compassion in that? Would they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: His proposal was X without time limits so does he now not agree with X without time limits?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the panel. There has been a missing voice in these hearings – the direct voice of the pregnant woman in crisis who has to face a real human dilemma. So far, we only have had secondary evidence. For that reason, I am very grateful to Dr. Seán Ó Domhnaill and Ms Breda O'Brien for going there as far as they can. Dr. Seán Ó Domhnaill described assisting a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I want to ask Dr. Ó Domhnaill to answer my question with regard to assisting the 19 year old suicidal woman he spoke about in his evidence to this hearing. What type of framework is he recommending that we put in place so we can best provide for that suicidal woman?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I did not get an answer to my question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome the panel. I agree with Choice Ireland on several points such as how dangerous the back-street clinics are for women and the pills that are not regulated that should be outlawed. However, what struck me today following three days of hearings is the danger of making decisions about legislating for X on the grounds of suicide in the narrow medical context only. It is absolutely...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: -----is proof of the need for legislation to give effect to the X case. The council has no evidence for that. That is a very dangerous claim, one that is adding panic to this debate unnecessarily. We must deal with this debate in a logical and calm way because this is about deciding our future. This claim is also about promoting the council's own agenda. Will Ms O'Connor address this? ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: May I respond?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: A young woman or any woman who gets pregnant lives in a family. She is in a relationship. She may be under pressure to have an abortion. We have heard this evidence from other witnesses here today. There is the regret after the abortion, and she may end up feeling suicidal as a result.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: We do not know that.