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Topical Issue Debate: Child Care Reports (3 Jul 2013)

Denis Naughten: I thank the Minister for attending. As she recalls, she informed me at an Oireachtas committee meeting last July that the audit had been completed and that the report was being prepared, yet the report had been completed three months previously by the consultant, Ms Lynne Peyton. Frustratingly, Ms Peyton discussed the audit's conclusions at a conference in Belfast whereas it took 14 months...

Topical Issue Debate: Child Care Reports (3 Jul 2013)

Denis Naughten: We owe it to the children at the centre of the Roscommon case to ensure that their courage and bravery is recognised. No other family should be failed by the State again to the extent that they were. When will the national audit of neglect files commence? What steps are being taken to develop a national training programme, which was identified in this report, not just within child care...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (3 Jul 2013)

Denis Naughten: 53. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he will take to address the increasing numbers of special needs pupils at primary level, in view of the curtailment in funding to support such pupils; if he has assessed the impact of the curtailment of special needs assistants on children with special needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32188/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (3 Jul 2013)

Denis Naughten: 56. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an assessment of the impact the changes to pupil-teacher ratios is having on class numbers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32189/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: After-School Support Services (3 Jul 2013)

Denis Naughten: 204. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she intends to take to address the lack of availability of after-school services for children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22386/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Benefit Issues (3 Jul 2013)

Denis Naughten: 229. To ask the Minister for Health the total amount paid out in maternity cash grants to medical card holders in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32455/13]

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

Denis Naughten: Last night I was dealing section 4 which makes provision for the laying of regulations before the Houses of the Oireachtas. While I know it is not the intention of this Minister to bring in significant regulations at present, there is nothing to stop a Minister in the future from bringing in significant regulations. The wording of my amendment or the alternative wording in Deputy Ó...

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

Denis Naughten: I raised this issue last night and Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív has also articulated it, but it has not been addressed. Significant powers are assigned to the Minister under subsections (1) and (2) of section 4. As I said, I accept that it is not the intention of the current Minister to bring in significant regulations under these provisions. The reality, however, is that once this...

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

Denis Naughten: With all due respect to the Minister, I am disappointed that he is not prepared to address the substantive issue I have raised. For the sub-committee's information, the word "prescribed" is used 11 times in the Bill. From the outset, therefore, there are 11 opportunities for the Minister to introduce regulations under subsection 4(1)(a), never mind in regard to the other categories. In...

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

Denis Naughten: With all due respect to the Minister of State, if he goes back through the Official Report he will see that I have raised the very same issue in the context of every single Bill with which I have engaged. I have been entirely consistent on this issue. Anybody with experience of the Opposition benches knows how frustrating it is when there is no opportunity for debate on a controversial...

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

Denis Naughten: I move amendment No. 15: In page 8, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following: “7. (1) It shall be lawful to carry out a medical procedure in respect of a pregnant woman in accordance with this section in the course of which, an unborn human life is ended where-- (a) the medical procedure is carried out in accordance with regulations under this section, (b) the unborn is...

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

Denis Naughten: I will not tease this back and forth. We have all debated these issues and know exactly what they are in this case. I have articulated my concerns in this regard and for that reason I will press the amendment.

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

Denis Naughten: I acknowledge Deputy Ó Caoláin's comment. I do not have access to the Parliamentary draughtsman and had no resources for drafting the text but I accept his point.

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

Denis Naughten: I wish to make a brief point on section 7 in regard to compiling the figures. It appears that there will not be a differentiation between an induction and a medical abortion, as may be required under the terms of the legislation. It is normal practice in the third trimester to talk about an early induction. That is usually the procedure involved. What the Minister has outlined to us in...

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

Denis Naughten: No. The point I am trying to make to the Minister is that there is a need for differentiation between an induction and a medical abortion in how the statistics are compiled. In the third trimester the normal medical procedure involves an induction and an early cessation of the pregnancy rather than an abortion. At earlier stages different procedures are involved. The statistics should...

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

Denis Naughten: I wish to refer to my amendment, No. 15, regarding my definition in subsection (1)(b). I may come back on Report Stage with an amendment to that.

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

Denis Naughten: My opposition to it was related to amendment No. 15. I do not oppose section 8.

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

Denis Naughten: Amendment No. 32 is pretty much the same.

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

Denis Naughten: I respectively disagree with the argument put forward by Deputies Ó Caoláin and Boyd Barrett. We are not, in terms of the legislation before us, talking about parity between mental and physical illness rather we are talking about parity between physical illness and suicidal intent. The legislate is quite clear, as was the evidence from the witnesses who attended the committee...

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

Denis Naughten: In light of the example provided by Deputy Shortall, will the Minister clarify a matter for me? If a woman is suicidal because of her pregnancy but has an underlying mental health issue which is treatable, would she be entitled to a termination?