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Written Answers — Department of Health: Preventative Medicine (2 Jul 2013)

Denis Naughten: 680. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to offer tamoxifen or raloxifene to all women aged over 35 years old with a family history of breast and related cancers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31960/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Issues (2 Jul 2013)

Denis Naughten: 695. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos 276 and 278 of 30 May 2013, if he will outline the number of psychiatric nursing staff officially appointed or allocated to each unit; the number of involuntary patients resident in each unit; the number of long-term involuntary or forensic patients, those deemed suitable for accommodation in a intensive care...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (2 Jul 2013)

Denis Naughten: 696. To ask the Minister for Health the number of long-term involuntary or forensic patients, the number of those deemed suitable for accommodation in a intensive care rehabilitation unit accommodated outside the Central Mental Hospital and appropriate long-term accommodation; the numbers in the Central Mental Hospital due for release this year and in each of the next three years; the...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Denis Naughten: Amendment No. 77, which I tabled and which has been ruled out of order, deals with a related issue that arose in the evidence given at the hearings, namely, the need for capacity legislation to be developed in conjunction with this Bill. Capacity is not provided for in the Bill because we are bringing in specific capacity legislation. Witnesses before the committee have expressed concerns...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Denis Naughten: Sorry, yes. I was referring to the consent that comes under the capacity legislation.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Denis Naughten: I accept what the Minister is saying, but he failed to address the question I asked. How is he going to deal with the issue of consent in the interim? Will we still let it be referred back to the courts? What is the timeline for that capacity legislation? This was consistently raised during the hearings we had on the issue. The committee requires clarification on what will happen in the...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Denis Naughten: Are the heads of the Bill coming before the Cabinet, or is it the Bill itself?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Denis Naughten: So we are still a bit off on that.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Denis Naughten: I know, but major concerns were raised about this at the hearings.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Denis Naughten: We had six days of hearings. One of the issues that came up from all sides in this debate was the issue of consent. It is legitimate to get clarification on that while we are dealing with the Bill.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Denis Naughten: We are speaking about parents who are told their babies will not be viable outside the womb and mothers who are told their pregnancies will not result in the birth of babies. I thank Deputy Healy for tabling these amendments because it is important for these issues to be teased out and clarified in the context of this Bill. I agree with Deputy Conway that we must try to find practical...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Denis Naughten: The Minister of State, Deputy White, made a cogent argument - I can see exactly where he is coming from - about the way in which the Constitution is worded at present. I have two questions. First, has the Government any intention of or has it given any consideration to putting before the people such an amendment to clarify the issue regarding fatal foetal abnormality? In the context of the...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Denis Naughten: I move amendment No. 6: In page 6, lines 30 and 31, to delete “as far as practicable”.This is the only amendment in the grouping in my name, the rest being in the name of Deputy Billy Kelleher. This amendment tries to address the issue of potential late-term abortions. It is not the intention of the Government to provide legislation that facilitates late-term abortions....

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Denis Naughten: I thank the Minister for his response. I am trying to get clarity on the right to terminate a potentially viable foetus. The Minister said that the legislation clearly states there is not a right to terminate a potentially viable foetus. Will he clarify where that is in the Bill? I have not found it. That specific provision is very important in respect of some of the concerns that have...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Denis Naughten: The reason I have concerns about that definition is in regard to the example I gave earlier, that is, where a psychiatrist believes there is a real and substantial risk that a woman will follow through with terminating her own life unless she gets a termination of pregnancy and her suicidal ideation, or the reason she is suicidal, is that she does not want to give birth to a baby. The normal...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Denis Naughten: Will we deal with this point?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Denis Naughten: I said at the start of my contribution that I accept this may not be an ideal wording, but I do not accept that the definition of "reasonable opinion" provides the type of clarity which the Minister and Minister of State believe it does. I accept their intention, which I said at the outset. We are all looking for the same thing. I do not believe that clarity is provided in that definition...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Denis Naughten: I move amendment No. 12: In page 8, to delete lines 14 to 19 and substitute the following:"(3) The Minister shall not make regulations under this Act without it being laid before and approved by each House of the Oireachtas.".The reasons I tabled this are twofold. First, I believe that regulations on a piece of legislation such as this should have a positive vote of the Oireachtas. The...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Denis Naughten: I would be happy-----

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Denis Naughten: I would be happy to support a provision whereby any substantive regulation would be put before the committee. I would not have a difficulty with this. However, I do have a difficulty with substantial regulations being laid before the Houses and, if not annulled within 21 days, being signed by the Minister, after which there is no further scrutiny. It is important that people realise what...