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Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I move amendment No. 23: In page 9, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following:“(5) No procedure as defined herein where the result of such procedure is the delivery of a viable infant shall expose any medical practitioner to civil or criminal liability for negligence.”. Amendments Nos. 23, 29 and 42 all relate to the issue of doctors' criminal or civil liability. On the...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I do not want to proceed in any other way either, but the Minister of State mentioned normal medical indemnity. Are the doctors indemnified or not, yes or no?

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am not inventing these situations; doctors have put them to me. We are going into a whole new area here. Doctors may deliver babies earlier than they should because of what we say is a real and substantial risk to the life of a mother. The baby is not looking to be born at that point. We may create a situation where there is injury. There is at least a danger that an obstetrician who...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: On a point of order, I am the Member who tabled the amendments. I accept under sections 7 and 8 that there can be an intervention.

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Senator Cullinane has misrepresented me. That is the second time he has done that. It is very disingenuous and is absolutely out of order.

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I move amendment No. 30: In page 10, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following:"9. (1) Any pregnant woman who presents as suicidal at her general practitioner or at an accident and emergency department shall be entitled to a Care Pathway which shall comprise the following steps--(a) a full psychiatric assessment and an assessment of capacity within two hours of presenting at her general...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The reference is to suicidal ideation.

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Nothing is without its critics.

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: This is the recommendation of a psychiatrist.

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is on a needs basis.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: While an attempt may be made to remove me from the Joint Committee on Education and Social Protection, it does not prevent me from speaking on education issues. I raised this issue last week with the Leader and in other ways. The Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Quinn, must state his position on how he intends to help children with Down's syndrome. A huge movement is gathering on...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am very happy to welcome Hildegarde to the Chamber. She is very welcome. We go back a bit. Her dad was very good to me. He was my mentor in politics when I started. In 2007, when I was elected to this Chamber, I had six men seeking my co-option and I approached Hildegarde and asked her whether she would be interested. Since then she has been a very fine public representative locally....

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am conscious that we are coming very close to the end of the term.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I have. The Leader will recall that I asked the Leader last week to bring to the House a statement by the Minister for Education and Skills on the future of education for children with Down's syndrome. Many parents are very concerned. The date 1 September, during the recess, will be here before we know it. We are looking for a level playing field for the children. Their parents are...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (22 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: In this debate, there is a danger of conveying the assumption that only one opinion is right. It is not true. We must stick to the facts. Sometimes, they are difficult to hear. We can pride ourselves on the fact that the current practice in Ireland is a two-patient model of care whereby the expectant mother and the child are prioritised. I infer from Senator Walsh's amendment that this is...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Does the Minister envisage a situation where institutions other than those listed in the Schedule will offer terminations or abortions to women in this country? I am also particularly concerned about the Marie Stopes clinic and there is one such clinic in Northern Ireland. As Senator Brian Ó Domhnaill said, abortion services are now a huge industry worldwide. Today Senator Ivan Bacik...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Okay. However, I understand she was an Irish woman who died in January 2012.

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: She did not die in Ireland.

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I agree completely. This woman had an abortion in the United Kingdom, in a Marie Stopes clinic. This is in The Irish Times today, as Senator Ivana Bacik pointed out this morning. She might have been affected by the abortion.

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Is that a point of order?