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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)

Alex White: I wish to refer to a number of the points raised, including that of the potential liability on the State.

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

Alex White: In an individual case.

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

Alex White: The principles that apply which we went through are the same as those that apply generally in medical negligence cases. As regards the care required to be taken in the clinical environment, as long as that is taken and the generally accepted standards of the profession are applied by a doctor in a given instance, as long as he or she applies in good faith the test set down in the...

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

Alex White: In what way? If someone has a better proposal as to how this can be done, he or she can tell us what it is now and we can consider it. As regards saying we would review it, under the Constitution one cannot have a sunset clause in legislation. One either passes legislation by voting for it or one does not. The other thing about it is that what the Oireachtas enacts, it can repeal at some...

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

Alex White: I am afraid I missed that suggestion.

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

Alex White: I agree absolutely. That is the position.

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

Alex White: We cannot know that.

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

Alex White: Yes.

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

Alex White: Even though what has been suggested here is not a lawyer but an advocate - I think Deputy Ó Cuív touched on this earlier when he mentioned a medical advocate or an advocate of some kind, rather than a lawyer, which is fair enough - it is still importing an adversarial approach into the clinical environment we are talking about. Our legal system is adversarial. In order for...

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

Alex White: No.

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

Alex White: That is it. There is a section 7 certificate or a section 9 certificate.

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

Alex White: I find it very difficult to dispute Deputy Seamus Healy's description of these provisions as "anachronistic" and "inhumane". However, the Minister made an important point when he said this section continued the criminalisation of women already provided for in law rather than introducing a criminal sanction. There is a difference. Deputy Michael McNamara is absolutely correct in his...

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

Alex White: May I correct the Deputy?

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

Alex White: At the end of a long two days on this controversial and contentious legislation, we have had a good discussion and no one has questioned anyone else’s motivations in any way. I appeal to people to accept that this legislation is within the provisions of the Constitution. I hope they do not think we could just reduce the tariff. Why would the Government decide, or the Attorney...

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

Alex White: It is bordering on the disingenuous to imagine we can have it both ways.

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

Alex White: The general proposition in section 22(1) is that it is an offence to intentionally destroy unborn human life. The rationale for section 22(4) is that if there was any doubt arising from subsections (1) to (3), inclusive, it might undermine sections 7 to 9, inclusive - in other words take from them in some way. It was necessary to insert subsection (4) to ensure there could be no doubt that...

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

Alex White: Sections 7 to 9, inclusive, provide for the only types of termination, if I may put it that way, which are protected from the blanket statement in section 22(1). If it is a procedure under sections (7), (8) or (9), inclusive, it is not covered by the blanket ban in section 22(1). In regard to Deputy McNamara's point, section 22(4) states: "For the avoidance of doubts it is hereby declared...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (4 Jul 2013)

Alex White: Regulation (EC) 883/04 and Implementing Regulation 987/09 provide for the coordination of social security systems, including healthcare, within the EU/EEA and Switzerland, with the aim of ensuring the free movement of persons. This objective of the Regulation is to ensure that persons exercising their right to move and to stay freely within the EU/EEA and Switzerland do not suffer...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Numbers (4 Jul 2013)

Alex White: The information requested by the Deputy is provided in the table. - Medical Cards CP Visit Cards 2013 1,873,015 128,180 2012 1,787,837 128,929 2011 1,656,276 121,065

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility (4 Jul 2013)

Alex White: The Long Term Illness (LTI) Scheme is a non-means tested scheme introduced in 1971. It provides free medicines and medical or surgical appliances to people with specified conditions. The LTI Scheme arose from a non-statutory scheme, established in 1967, for the free supply of certain products for the treatment of diabetes to persons who did not hold a medical card under the Health Act 1947....