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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)

Ciara Conway: There is a somewhat bizarre quality to this discussion. We have a number of Deputies who are advocating against this legislation, as narrow as its provisions are, yet at the same time expressing their dissatisfaction with a particular provision that is very much a reflection of the sanctity of the unborn, as set out in the Constitution. In other words, some of those who are advocating that...

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

Ciara Conway: To follow on from Deputy McNamara's point, am I right in thinking there is an anomaly? If a pregnant woman is assaulted and her baby dies, there is no criminal sanction for that. That is a bit of an anomaly.

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

Ciara Conway: Yes; maybe the intention is not there. There is one other thing I would like to pick up on. If a doctor refuses to carry out a termination and the woman dies - this may be what Deputy Keaveney was getting at - what penalty is there for the doctor?

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

Ciara Conway: I do not know - for whatever reason.

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

Ciara Conway: I thank the Minister, the Minister of State and the departmental staff for their patience and approach. To echo the words of Deputy Ferris, it is a good day for Irish women, particularly pregnant women and girls. This will give them, their families and the medics who treat them the clarity and security they need. I thank the Chairman, who has been exemplary in his conduct in facilitating...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Traveller Community Issues (9 Jul 2013)

Ciara Conway: 428. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to introduce legislation that will provide for the recognition of traveller ethnicity; if he will provide an update and a timeline for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33317/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Breeding Regulations (9 Jul 2013)

Ciara Conway: 450. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding recent policy changes pertaining to meat-feeding licences for greyhound owners with respect to what now constitutes a breeding establishment for the purposes of the meat-feeding licence; if the obligation to hold a meat-feeding licence has now been broadened in any way to include more greyhound-owners...

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

Ciara Conway: I oppose those seeking the deletion of section 9. In February 2013, a Wexford Coroner's Court heard, very tragically, that ten out of 14 inquests concerned suicides. One person under the age of 17 dies by suicide every month in this country. In 2010, 486 certified suicides were recorded, 386 very tragically were male and 100 were female. Suicide is the leading cause of death. It is a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Conditions (10 Jul 2013)

Ciara Conway: 220. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will allow hay to be cut a week earlier this year under the agri-environment options scheme due to the recent fodder difficulties, in view of the current good weather spell; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33712/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: HSE Reports (11 Jul 2013)

Ciara Conway: 211. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the findings of the investigation following the absconsions from Gleann Alainn special care unit in October 2011 will be available; if she will provide an update and a timeline for publication; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34082/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Issues (16 Jul 2013)

Ciara Conway: 774. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details, broken down by electoral area, of the number of empty local authority housing units in Waterford County and Waterford City; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34663/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting Applications (16 Jul 2013)

Ciara Conway: 917. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form on a county basis the timeline for processing applications for Garda clearance from the date of initial application to the date of final decision; the measures being taken to reduce the waiting times for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35114/13]

Child and Family Agency Bill 2013: Second Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Ciara Conway: I thank the Minister for bringing the legislation before the House this evening. From our involvement in the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children, she will know this is an area of huge interest and the Bill represents a significant step forward in the area. In recent years we have had up to 17 major reports on child protection, mainly chronicling the period from 2000 to 2010....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions Issues (17 Jul 2013)

Ciara Conway: 66. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the losses incurred by a credit union (details supplied) in County Waterford as a result of the liquidation of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation; if he will advise as to what route this institution should pursue; if he is aware of other institutions in similar circumstances; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Money Laundering (17 Jul 2013)

Ciara Conway: 67. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has given consideration to changing the proposed requirements around anti-money laundering identification for the purchase of prize bonds; if he will consider increasing the new limits to a limit of €100, rather than the current proposed figure of €25 euro, for those who wish to purchase prize bonds; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Contracts (17 Jul 2013)

Ciara Conway: 90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will list in tabular form, the names of the companies, where they are headquartered, and the value of the contracts awarded to all entities involved in the construction of school building projects in Tramore, County Waterford in the past four years; the efforts that were made to provide employment for local trades people and or companies;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (17 Jul 2013)

Ciara Conway: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a full update on what efforts are being made to upgrade the accommodation at a school (details supplied) in County Waterford; if he has given due regard to the savings to his Department if a permanent building were put in place rather than the wasted expenditure incurred due to the current situation; when he expects this...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Issues (18 Jul 2013)

Ciara Conway: 68. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will contact the banks to urge them to adopt a charter whereby citizens can opt for a basic current account that will cost no more than a maximum of 100 euro per annum; if he will work with the institutions to encourage them to operate a basic account for those on very low incomes or State supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (18 Jul 2013)

Ciara Conway: 72. To ask the Minister for Finance if probate on wills is subject to stamp duty; if stamp duty was imposed on probate, the amount it would realise for the Exchequer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35987/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (18 Jul 2013)

Ciara Conway: 73. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a non-means tested State pension is fully exempt from the universal social charge; if the non-means tested State pension was subject to a USC, the amount it would realise for the Exchequer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35989/13]