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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (9 Jul 2013)
Michael Healy-Rae: 501. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33079/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (9 Jul 2013)
Michael Healy-Rae: 539. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33361/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (9 Jul 2013)
Michael Healy-Rae: 564. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason persons have to wait so long for an NCT to be carried out on their vehicles; the average time for waiting; the number of cars in the system waiting for a test to be carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33051/13]
- Order of Business (10 Jul 2013)
Michael Healy-Rae: When will legislation to implement the Government's proposal to reduce the voting age from 18 to 16 years come before the House? Foróige has welcomed the announcement in this regard, but there has been no clarification of the timeframe involved.
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (10 Jul 2013)
Michael Healy-Rae: We have them fine.
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (10 Jul 2013)
Michael Healy-Rae: I appreciate this opportunity to discuss the various amendments. That the microphones are not working today is an omen. One might call me superstitious but I believe I am actually right. I was very upset earlier when I heard the Taoiseach responding to Deputy Adams and Deputy Martin regarding the legislation. He said we will get rid of it this evening. In other words, he was implying it...
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (10 Jul 2013)
Michael Healy-Rae: We will get to that because it is the most important. I look forward to discussing it at the appropriate time.
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (10 Jul 2013)
Michael Healy-Rae: It is a disgrace.
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (10 Jul 2013)
Michael Healy-Rae: I have serious concerns about what is being proposed in amendments Nos. 72 and 109 and I would not like to see them going through.
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (10 Jul 2013)
Michael Healy-Rae: Amendments Nos. 109 and 72.
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (10 Jul 2013)
Michael Healy-Rae: I compliment Deputy Mathews on what he said to the Minister with regard to allowing people vote with their conscience and not under the party Whip. Every person who was elected to this Chamber should be allowed today and tonight to vote with their own minds, hearts and souls and the party Whip should not be imposed on them. What the Government is doing to people who are unwilling to break...
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (10 Jul 2013)
Michael Healy-Rae: I have a serious problem with amendment No. 109 which seeks to insert "or health" after "life". I hope that there will be a vote on amendments such as this because this is about people's lives. It concerns the unborn life, which, to me, starts at the moment of conception and finishes the day that God takes that person out of this world. Nobody else should take away a person's right to life.
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Michael Healy-Rae: It is a pity there are not more like Deputy Creighton.
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Michael Healy-Rae: I applaud and congratulate Members such as the Minister of State, Deputy Creighton, and her colleagues on the other side of the House who have gone against this Bill. The only disappointment I have is that tomorrow, as a result of her actions tonight, I will no longer be able to refer to her as Minister of State. That is blatantly wrong. I appreciate when Members speak in this Chamber...
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Michael Healy-Rae: It is good to see a few Members tonight who are willing to stand for something and put it on the record. Time will thank them for it. Tomorrow will not, but time will. This Bill before us is wrong on the suicide issue. Every Member here is as interested in the protection of women's lives as they are in the lives of the unborn. We want to put the unborn life at the same level as that of...
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Michael Healy-Rae: Well said.
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Michael Healy-Rae: I should be added to the list. I was locked out when I was in possession.
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Michael Healy-Rae: Can I be added?
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Michael Healy-Rae: Before we adjourned I was addressing amendment No. 58 and I was complimenting the Minister of State, Deputy Lynch, on the amendment she had proposed. I wish to condemn in the strongest possible way the decision taken by the Chief Whip and the people who voted for this ridiculous decision to take the vote at 5 a.m. It is not that anybody on this side of the House is flinching at the idea of...
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Michael Healy-Rae: I will speak to amendments Nos. 10 and 81, which are extremely important. When we speak about fatal foetal abnormalities, I would rather describe the issue in more human terms by seeing it as being about ill babies. In my opinion, these are babies and viable lives. We have had many instances in the past where prospective parents have been told a child has a fatal foetal abnormality and...