Results 4,041-4,060 of 5,034 for speaker:Billy Timmins
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)
Billy Timmins: To clarify, these are the heads of the protection of life during pregnancy Bill, not the protection of maternal life Bill. I have the height of admiration for the medical profession in this country and across the globe. There are many places I would rather be than here but there is a duty upon me, as a legislator, to inform myself. In trying to get that information, if I come across as...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)
Billy Timmins: There are two lessons we should all take from today's discussion. The first relates to the funding that is needed to upgrade maternal facilities in this State and the second is the need for supports for the thousands of women who have had abortions and are suffering in silence. Those two issues must be addressed. Earlier today Dr. Peter Boylan mentioned the submission to the committee by...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)
Billy Timmins: If a copy were made available to me I could photocopy it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)
Billy Timmins: On a point of order, I could leave to make copies now and bring them back before the end of the session.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)
Billy Timmins: I might not have much influence after these hearings.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)
Billy Timmins: I have two brief questions. With regard to the expert group, I heard Dr. McCarthy say on radio that the College of Psychiatrists in Ireland nominee was not accepted by the Minister.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)
Billy Timmins: The heads of the Bill are founded on the expert group. As such, this is an important issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)
Billy Timmins: I may be wrong but as I understand it there are only three perinatal psychiatrists in this country. I would be surprised if one of those people was not a member of the expert group. Perhaps Dr. McCarthy will confirm if that is the case. With regard to the survey referred to by Deputy Mitchell O'Connor, as politicians we accept the bona fides of everybody's evidence. Where a conflict of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)
Billy Timmins: On a point of order, Chairman ---
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)
Billy Timmins: I wish to refer to part of the written statement by Professor O'Keane about suicide in general ---
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)
Billy Timmins: I will address it in the next session.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)
Billy Timmins: I will seek a response from Professor O'Keane in the next session. It is really important.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)
Billy Timmins: I apologise if I was trying to badger the Chairman a little bit in the last session, but I had a few important points to make. I would like to ask the panel about Women Hurt. I was deeply offended at the last session when Dr. Ferguson stated that people who are dissatisfied set up pressure groups. Professor O'Keane said that there are 150,000 women out there who have had abortions and - I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)
Billy Timmins: Yes, but there were slight differences in her verbal submission. I am wondering which one will go into the record. I want to clarify a few things in case the record-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)
Billy Timmins: Okay, so there will be a slight difference. That is fair enough. In her written submission, Professor O'Keane states that-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)
Billy Timmins: -----the vast majority of people who kill themselves tell someone that they intend to do so and, therefore, should be believed. I think that is a very profound statement and will have an impact. From my brief understanding of suicide and the bereaved families I deal with, very few of them in that tragic situation seem to have been told, or knew anything about it, beforehand. Is there any...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)
Billy Timmins: Chairman, I sought this information this morning from the college.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)
Billy Timmins: On a point of order, this information was given out this morning by Dr. McCarthy-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)
Billy Timmins: -----and it informs the debate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)
Billy Timmins: The impression was given that-----