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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)

Billy Timmins: I will bring the Minister back to a change of practice.

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

Billy Timmins: It is important to note that it will lead to a change of practice. That is what I am trying to establish.

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

Billy Timmins: I am opposed to this section of the Bill.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Septic Tank Registration Scheme (4 Jul 2013)

Billy Timmins: 172. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the grants available for the upgrade of septic tanks; the cut off registration date; and if the property has been sold in the interim, the new owner will be able to avail of the grant. [32645/13]

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

Billy Timmins: 253. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position in relation to a matter (details supplied) regarding the "Prime Time" programme which gave a shocking insight into the state of child care here and the issues that need to be addressed urgently by the Government: if she will ensure all child care services are affordable and high in quality by providing State subsidies,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Investigations (9 Jul 2013)

Billy Timmins: 147. To ask the Minister for Finance the position on recent revelations regarding Anglo Irish Bank (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32871/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Regulation of Sunbed Use (9 Jul 2013)

Billy Timmins: 473. To ask the Minister for Health the position in relation to sunbed regulations (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33923/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (9 Jul 2013)

Billy Timmins: 503. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 559 of 18 June 2013, the position regarding an operation in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33093/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (9 Jul 2013)

Billy Timmins: 527. To ask the Minister for Health the reason gestational diabetes is no longer covered on the long term illness scheme and the primary care reimbursement service no longer pay for items prescribed for gestational diabetes even if the local Health Service Executive office has issued approval; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33316/13]

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (10 Jul 2013)

Billy Timmins: On a point of order, I do not mean to be disruptive but I seek clarification. The Taoiseach said on the Order of Business that if additional time was required later in the evening, the House will facilitate it. How will that procedure take place?

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (10 Jul 2013)

Billy Timmins: It is important to realise that this is a human rights issue and that is the way I look at it. With respect to all religions and none, this is immaterial. In many respects, these amendments go to the heart of the differences people have because, with the exception of Deputy McGrath’s amendment, there is a failure to recognise the position of the unborn human life. That failure...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Billy Timmins: Will there be a requirement for physical infrastructure changes in any of the approved centres?

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Billy Timmins: Amendment No. 56 is the last to which I will speak. I will be pressing the amendment. I concur with much of what has been said by previous speakers. This is a profound moment for the Oireachtas and for the State. This is the most barbaric section - the suicide clause - that has been put before the House since the foundation of the State. I was in the Nutley wing of St. Vincent's...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Billy Timmins: Based on the suicide clause, the Bill is unconstitutional. I would like the Minister for Health to tell me whether the Attorney General and Cabinet are satisfied that it is constitutional. Do they have doubts about its constitutionality? Many Members will come in here tonight and vote for this Bill, and will vote against amendment No. 56, on the basis they believe they have no other choice...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Billy Timmins: That is what is required. I believe that most people would concur on that because the equal right to life is impossible to implement. It is a flawed article; I acknowledge that. However, we have laboured under a false illusion in this House and many Members going to vote tonight will labour under a false illusion by voting to retain this clause based on the X case judgment because it is...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Billy Timmins: I appreciate the difficulty the Minister has in trying to create legislation in this area to end up ultimately with a medical practice that can be followed. I agree with the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, that much of the talk here has been legalese, but one of the foundations of the Government's policy is legalese. I regret that the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Billy Timmins: If this legislation is struck down, will the Government also be of the view that it will not hold a referendum on the issue?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (10 Jul 2013)

Billy Timmins: 66. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views regarding forced organ harvesting (details supplied); his plans to bring forward laws that will stop all Irish companies, organisations, persons, physicians and the health services from being accomplices in the heinous crime of organ trafficking; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33846/13]

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

Billy Timmins: I move amendment No. 56:In page 10, to delete lines 6 to 39.

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

Billy Timmins: I support the broad thrust of these amendments. In concurrence with the previous speaker, I do not necessarily believe this legislation will open the floodgates. That was never the basis on which I opposed it. Experience elsewhere has shown that it has but I do not know if it will do it in this case. We have a wonderful mechanism for collecting statistics of every sort through the Central...