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Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: I do not dispute - or perhaps I should say that I do not have the information to dispute - the Minister's assertion that these provisions are really to do with forms and so on. I take it he is referring to the forms that will be used by medical practitioners in the certification process. Will he clarify whether it is envisaged that certification will issue in respect of all applications,...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: I raised the issue not out of prurience or to know who the individuals concerned might be. Section 15 makes provision for the reporting mechanism and provides for it to be anonymous. However, in the context of governance and of being in a position to have an informed overview of the effect of the legislation, we need a record. It is not just about the number of applications that have been...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: This section is one of the areas of relatively little contention. On foot of the expert view report what struck me was that no accurate statistics were available in respect of the number of medical terminations in Irish maternity hospitals. Arising from section 7 of the Bill, there is provision for the reporting of certified entitlement to terminations and the appropriate institution will...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: I am thinking that the suicide issue is the most serious one.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: I accept that and do not wish to engage in an argument with the Minister on the issue, but it is ironic that it is provided for under the review mechanism, not in the initial process.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: The Minister of State, Deputy White, referred to the Constitution and the equal right to life. In conjunction with the Supreme Court's ruling in the X case, the latter is the backdrop against which the legislation is framed. The Minister of State specifically referred to Article 40.3.3°, which accords an equal right to life to the unborn. As Deputy Shortall pointed out, at a certain...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: I do not think anybody in this room or anyone engaged in a serious way in this debate wants to put the life of a mother at risk but I come back the Minister's acknowledgement that there is an equal right to life. I suppose this question needs to be posed in the context of vindicating the right to life of the mother. Should this committee, in the context of framing this legislation, not...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: This is the difficulty we have as lay people but I sat through six days of hearings and I suppose by a process of osmosis we have all gained some degree of medical qualification to comment-----

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: Is there not a critical issue in terms of say 23 to 24 weeks and 28 to 30 weeks? Is there a process of case management? Is it not incumbent on us to travel that road of an advocate for the unborn child? That is something which the committee could usefully explore. Perhaps the Minister will consider coming back to it at a later Stage.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Funding (4 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: 237. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will outline the level of funding received by an organisation (details supplied) under the youth services grants scheme each year since 2008; if in view of the increasing membership to this organisation she will favourably consider their appliction for funding for 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32676/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (9 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: 280. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on an invalidity pension appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32873/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (10 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: 169. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on an invalidity pension appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33696/13]

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: I will speak on amendments Nos. 22 and 27 and pursue a point raised by Deputy Calleary. There is much confusion among the public about gestational limits in the legislation. It is a very emotive issue. I ask the Minister to clarify the point. As I understand, the danger in providing for a gestational limit in the context of a woman whose life is threatened during pregnancy is that a...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: She can.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: The people voted for it to be in the Constitution.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: I wish to make a few brief observations on this section and on the amendments. We have spent an extraordinary long period of time - six months or more - in considering all the views and trying to balance the rights of the mother and of the unborn child. These are fundamental rights to life. What I say is probably against the grain of all previous contributions. It is being unrealistic if...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (11 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: 119. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Cork is entitled to domiciliary care allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33991/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Avoidance Issues (16 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: 235. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will pursue with the Revenue Commissioners the requirement for a tracking mechanism for former employees who switched to C2 operators without any intervening period of unemployment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34492/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Money Laundering (16 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: 244. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to concerns raised by the Irish Post Masters Union regarding the requirement for anti-money laundering regulations to be complied with in respect of the sale of prize bonds over €25 in value; if he sees merit in their suggestion that this limit be set at €100.00; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors Working Conditions (16 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: 1122. To ask the Minister for Health the current regulations regarding hours worked by non-consultant hospital doctors; if Irish hospitals are compliant with labour law in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35175/13]