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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Poverty (17 Oct 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 62. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she will take to eliminate child poverty; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43754/17]

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Oct 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: It is strange that we are here on a quiet morning with very few people present for a debate on what was one of the most politically toxic issues in Ireland, the issue of the water charges. It must stick in the craw of the Taoiseach and a number of other people at the top of Fine Gael to have to refund people and effectively declare the end of water charges. I will split my speech in two....

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Oct 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Opposition to water charges is Trotskyism.

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Oct 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: For swimming pools. We have said it previously.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (18 Oct 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: 129. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the conduct of An Garda Síochána in relation to a domestic violence case (details supplied) that relates to the killing of a member of An Garda Síochána in Omeath, County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44264/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (18 Oct 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Can the witnesses be allowed to sit over there and the members of the committee sit down here? I ask because I think there has been some interaction between people sitting there and the witnesses. Such a seating arrangement would be better for the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I thank the delegates for their presentations. I will begin with Professor Arulkumaran. Unfortunately, we are coming up to the fifth anniversary of Savita's death. There are still people who claim that her death had nothing to do with the law but rather with mismanagement in the particular hospital. I want to nail that one right now. In the recommendations made in Professor Arulkumaran's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: At the time Professor Arulkumaran recommended that the Oireachtas consider the law, including any necessary constitutional change. That was one of his recommendations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Is he very disappointed or surprised that it has taken five years since the death of Savita for the Oireachtas to act?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Is Professor Arulkumaran surprised that it has taken five years for the Oireachtas to even discuss the issue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Professor Arulkumaran states in his presentation that we could formulate a list of conditions, but that it would never be able to cover all health conditions which may arise. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Professor Arulkumaran is probably aware that the Citizens' Assembly insisted on risk rather than substantial risk being considered. It was the citizens participating in the assembly who did not want the words "substantial" or "real" being included. Does he think that would be wise and that risk alone should be the basis of any health-based ground for abortion?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: By "the women of Ireland" Professor Arulkumaran means the 4,800 women whom he says are leaving the country and the further 20% whom he says are taking medical abortion pills which they source online. We heard evidence on this matter last week which included a study which had been carried out. What is his opinion on legislation which does not cater for those women whose health is not at risk...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: I would also like to ask Dr. Boylan a few questions. He has spoken about the genie being out of the bottle because pregnant women can access abortion pills on the Internet and also find out quite a lot about them. It is not like 1983. What percentage of abortions would be covered by the 12-week period recommended by the Citizens' Assembly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: In Dr. Boylan's view, would that be the best way? He mentioned legislation that he has looked at, without citing any particular country, where it is at a woman's request in the first trimester. Would that be the best basis for abortion legislation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Why does Dr. Boylan say honest?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Has Dr. Boylan any experience of women who are denied an abortion deciding not to have one? In other words, is this is going to continue, whether legal or illegal? Would that be his view?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: My last question is on late-term abortions which have come up a lot at this committee. Indeed, they have come up a lot in Ireland generally, with images being used by anti-abortion groups. How frequent are these post-23 week abortions? What percentage of the overall abortion rate do they represent and for what reasons would they be carried out at that very late stage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: Finally, something was said earlier about babies being left to die and that phrase has been used here before. References were also made to injections into the heart and so forth. Could Professor Arulkumaran clarify that he was referring to parents who are experiencing fatal foetal abnormality or some other situation where the prognosis is that life is not possible?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin (18 Oct 2017)

Ruth Coppinger: The phrase "babies left to die" would be quite offensive and insulting in those circumstances.