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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: On a point of order, the committee decided that the questions would be directed to the heads of the Bill, and many of us have respected that today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the witnesses for their very informative presentations. I have some specific questions aimed at ensuring women have access to effective procedures, whereby their constitutional right to life could be vindicated in the very rare cases we are discussing, as we have all said. There is a proposal to merge heads 2 and 4 which makes sense. Is the Institute of Obstetricians and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the three witnesses for bringing their expertise for our benefit. I thank Dr. Mahony, in particular, for reminding us so powerfully of the facts of the X case and of the evidence of the suicidal intent of that unfortunate young woman. We have heard useful evidence about the lack of access to intensive care units in the maternity hospitals. All three witnesses have suggested that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the witnesses for their compelling evidence and for clarifying a number of important points for us. First, that psychiatrists have the experience and expertise to assess suicide risk, that it is something they all do routinely and that in particular they are used to operating within the statutory framework of the Mental Health Act and of adjudicating on detaining people against their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the witnesses very much for their very helpful points and comments and for reminding us that the legislation is very restrictive but that its purpose is to provide for an accessible and effective procedure whereby women may vindicate their constitutional right to life. It is particularly helpful to hear from Dr. O'Grady who had the direct experience of having certified eligibility...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: First, I thank those witnesses who engaged with the terms of the heads of the Bill as members of this committee are required to do. Since the Oireachtas is required to legislate for the X case in accordance with the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights and as the Government has decided to legislate, it is helpful to have submissions that engage with the heads of the Bill, as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I will do that and I thank the Cathaoirleach.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I wish to ask Dr. Mills and Mr. O'Connor in particular about the issue regarding the general practitioner, GP. I take the point about the current wording, "where practicable", being rather vague. Would it be helpful to include a specific requirement that the GP be consulted with the consent of the pregnant woman? In a second point on definitions, Mr. O'Connor picked up on the definition of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: However, should the pregnant woman herself be criminalised?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: That is not what Professor O'Keane said.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I thank in particular to Mr. Callanan and Mrs. Justice McGuinness for their comments on head 19. I share their concerns about the over-broad drafting of that criminal offence. Could I ask them both specific questions about this Bill being conceptually conservative, in particular in head 1 in respect of two definitions? I agreed with Mrs. Justice McGuinness when she said she regretted that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I will note the Chairman's distinction in that regard. My first question is to Dr. Craven. I am at a loss to understand his submission - I have read his submission as well as listening to his contribution - and the basis for his opposition to the heads of the Bill. His view is that it changes the current two patient duty, as he put it, but in my reading, and according to the experts we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I wish to clarify-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: Dr. Craven misunderstood the question I asked, namely, whether the definition of unborn, as currently constituted in head 1, included even the very sad situation where the foetus is no longer alive. I believe it does, which means that it would require women, even where they do not wish to do so, to carry to term a foetus that is not alive. That is my concern, and also that in head 19 we are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the Chair for the impeccable way in which he has run the proceedings over the past three days. I also thank the clerk and the secretariat for running the proceedings so well. I feel privileged to have taken part and to have been enabled to take part as a substitute member, that is, as someone who has just come to the committee. I welcome the Minister of State and thank him for his...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I compliment the Chairman and the clerk of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children which held hearings in the Chamber over the past three working days. It was very good use of the Chamber. The hearings were comprehensive. I attended as a substitute member for most of the hearings, and many colleagues were also in attendance. We had very constructive engagement on the heads...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: IHREC: Discussion with Members Designate (22 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I echo Senator Katherine Zappone's words of congratulations to the delegates on their appointment as members of the IHRC and members designate of the IHREC. I apologise in advance for my imminent departure, as I must attend the Order of Business in the Seanad at 10.30 a.m. I was very glad to hear what Professor Mullally had to say about regular engagement with the committee and on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: IHREC: Discussion with Members Designate (22 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I thank Professor Mullally for her very comprehensive answer. Does she have a timeframe in mind? Will it be weeks or months?

Seanad: Order of Business (23 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: Like everybody else, I was shocked and horrified by the incident in Woolwich, London, yesterday in which a young man was killed in broad daylight in front of large numbers of people in a brutal and gruesome attack. I am sure everybody would wish to extend their sympathies to the family of the dead young man. It is a serious issue, one which raises real concerns for public safety and...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: We must be careful about robustly defending the Irish tax regime. It is appropriate that this issue was discussed at the EU summit yesterday. Clearly, this is an issue not alone for Ireland or any other individual country but at a transnational level in terms of ensuring transparency in tax regimes so that multinationals cannot escape their tax liabilities by seeking tax havens, which...