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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)

Michael Creed: I have two questions for our guests this morning. Deputy Mitchell O'Connor referred to opening the floodgates and that is a genuine fear of people who are probably not prisoners of either extreme in this debate. There is a provision under heads 10 and 11 for an accountability structure to give the Minister an anonymised version of numbers of applications, etc., but there is no role...

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

Michael Creed: I thank the witnesses for their contributions and preface my remarks by saying it is regrettable that we tend to elevate or diminish contributions depending on our own perspective. We are all trying to grapple with something that is enormously complex. I agree that the "pro-life" and "pro-choice" terms do an injustice to the complexity of the issue. We should be more tolerant of all...

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

Michael Creed: I thank the witnesses for their enlightening presentations. If memory serves me correctly, on Friday Dr. Tony Holohan, the chief medical officer in the Department of Health, said the Department did not have access to figures in respect of adolescents in care who might have access and entitlement to a termination on the basis of the circumstances of the X case. In that context I will...

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

Michael Creed: Dr. O'Grady did not answer one of my questions regarding the numbers of patients he may have certified and the numbers that may have been declined, as well as why cases may have been declined.

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

Michael Creed: I am not looking for the individual details. I am just looking for the overall numbers.

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

Michael Creed: I am looking for all of those data, if Dr. O'Grady could provide it.

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

Michael Creed: I thank the witnesses. Sometimes I see the situation with great clarity and other times I am in an indeterminable fog. Perhaps the witnesses could tell me what the case is at present. In their professional lives on a daily basis, the witnesses before us and their colleagues this morning adjudicate on the clinical risk of suicide and they make decisions on whether to admit, commit or treat...

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

Michael Creed: Did Dr. Montwill not indicate that psychiatrists assess that risk every day?

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

Michael Creed: The preliminary question is whether termination is an appropriate treatment for the patient's condition as she presents. If it is not appropriate, the psychiatrist will indicate that is the case and may well indicate in a footnote that she should be treated in a different fashion.

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

Michael Creed: I welcome the delegation and thank the witnesses for their presentations. Mr. Saunders made a point in respect of a review mechanism in the legislation and its effect. There is a provision in head 10 or head 11 for a reporting mechanism back to the line Minister on the number of cases, the applications for review, etc., but there is not any role envisaged in that reporting mechanism for the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Compliance (21 May 2013)

Michael Creed: 504. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline the transitional arrangements that he envisages on the introduction of the Building Control Act on 1 March 2014; the way these might apply to those who are currently engaged in exams under the RIAI but who may not have those completed by the 1 March 2014 deadline; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Grants (21 May 2013)

Michael Creed: 573. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding outstanding forestry grants in respect of a person (detailssupplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23875/13]

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

Michael Creed: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I wish to focus on three areas. In his opening remarks on head 4, Mr. Brady said we should not be under any illusions that we are creating new law. Law emerges in many forms - through statute law, court interpretation, precedent, etc. Section 21.1 of the current Medical Council guidelines states: Abortion is illegal in Ireland except where...

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

Michael Creed: My next question relates to head 4. Section 18 of the Offences against the State Act provides for a renewal mechanism of that legislation on an annual basis. In the context of head 4 and the considerable concern about whether what is provided therein will open the flood gates, do the witnesses believe the Oireachtas should, following a defined period following enactment of this legislation,...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Expenditure (22 May 2013)

Michael Creed: 162. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the impact that withdrawal of one parent family payments will have on those parents who are in the work-force and in receipt of family income supplement; if she will ensure that their level of FIS entitlement will be reviewed immediately on the withdrawal of their one parent family payment rather than the annual...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Civil Bills (22 May 2013)

Michael Creed: 202. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has any concerns regarding the validity of civil bills issued where the Court Services facilitated the stamping of blank documents which were subsequently used in the issuance of civil bills and where the stamping date pre-dates the incidents referred to in the civil bill; his views on the validity of such civil bills; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Environment Protection Scheme Expenditure (28 May 2013)

Michael Creed: 576. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if it is possible to seek EU approval for an extension of the REP scheme 4; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25670/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (29 May 2013)

Michael Creed: 206. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork has not yet received their agri-environment option scheme payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26238/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)

Michael Creed: Is the Deputy non-compliant?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (29 May 2013)

Michael Creed: I welcome Ms Feehily and her colleagues and thank them for their presentation and congratulate their staff and agents. While I do not know anyone who likes paying tax, it is inevitable and this tax is being processed in a very professional manner. I congratulate all involved. I would particularly like to congratulate all those who have complied. The level of compliance is remarkable. ...