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- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: This morning I received a letter in which the Ceann Comhairle stated he regretted that he had to inform me that amendment No. 3 would have to be ruled out of order as it was declaratory in nature. Will the Leas-Cheann Comhairle explain what that means?
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The amendment relates to the Title which is false and erroneous in the extreme. It should be called what it is.
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: It is not about the protection of life during pregnancy. It is about the deliberate killing of unborn children.
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: It should be called the termination of pregnancy Bill.
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Obviously, the Bill is rushed and could not be done fast enough. The Minister is going to stay here all night but now we find out that the arrangements for the institutions are not even made. I know that from my hospital in south Tipperary. No one knows what is happening but the general threat is that hospitals which do not conform to and perform the Bill’s provisions will be...
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Of course it is being rushed.
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: This morning the Taoiseach said he wanted to get rid of the Bill before tonight. What does the Minister call that?
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: These amendments are using words lightly and glibly. We were told by Women Hurt by Abortion, a group which was not allowed to give its evidence at the committee hearings on the Bill, that they would have lied and claimed they were suicidal. This is just playing with words and semantics. I think it is very distasteful.
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: In particular, my input is directed to amendment No. 23. I compliment the bravery, understanding and research of colleagues across the floor who cannot accept the decision based on the X case. It was a flawed judgment. Anybody who sat through our committee hearings understands that. It is the one thing that emerged. The Supreme Court in the X case heard no proper legal arguments on...
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: A further contradiction is that where a person facing deportation claims suicide, it is to no avail. A person that is suicidal needs treatment. Abortion is the last treatment any pregnant woman needs. It is not a treatment in any shape or form for a person suffering stress and trauma. A woman needs to be treated and to have a health care plan worked out. In the fullness of time,...
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Two too many at that.
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I have a point of order.
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: He is entitled to have his say.
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: He is being interrupted.
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Good man, Peter.
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: What about the whistleblower legislation?
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I wish to place on the record of the House a matter of the utmost importance in respect of the constitutional validity of the proposed Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013. It has been brought to my attention that the Oireachtas has no right to vote on a Bill that contains provisions that have been put to the Irish people in referendums and which they in a sovereign exercise...
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: These provisions must be removed from the Bill currently before the Oireachtas before it is subjected to a final vote. The decision also puts these provisions out of the reach of the Government. If the Government wants to include them, it must first get the Irish people to reverse its previous decision. The Irish electorate voted "No"-----
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: -----in the 2002 referendum to repeal sections 58 and 59 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861. The proposal to delete sections 58 and 59 of that Act, which this Bill seeks, would require a new referendum. Similarly, the Irish electorate voted "No" in the 2002 referendum, specifying that the life would be protected from implantation-----
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Mattie McGrath: -----yet this Bill presumes to legislate for protecting a stage of human life. In light of these facts which I have placed on the record of the House I am calling for a suspension of the vote on the Bill until the matter is resolved in a manner that respects-----