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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)

Róisín Shortall: I can still refer to it under this section.

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

Róisín Shortall: That clause would provide the type of safeguard that people are seeking.

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

Róisín Shortall: Because it could be revisited.

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

Róisín Shortall: Under the section I want to raise concerns about the absence of gestational limits. Many people are disturbed by this and it is not generally known among the public. I referred earlier to ethical concerns raised at the hearings of this committee, principally by Dr. Sam Coulter Smyth on behalf of his colleagues. He is the Master of one of the busiest maternity hospitals in Europe. He said:...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permit Appeals (4 Jul 2013)

Róisín Shortall: 138. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 384 of 5 February 2013, if he will confirm that the details supplied were those used in drafting the reply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32674/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (4 Jul 2013)

Róisín Shortall: 265. To ask the Minister for Health his plans, if any, for the introduction of the new vaccine into the childhood immunisation schedule that protects against Meningitis B disease which was recently licensed by the European Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32692/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Issues (9 Jul 2013)

Róisín Shortall: 205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will examine the possibility of bringing the pension entitlements of those who received redress from the Residential Institutions Redress Board in line with those included in the proposed redress scheme for survivors of the Magdalene Laundries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33069/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Aftercare Services (9 Jul 2013)

Róisín Shortall: 463. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of her Department's willingness to fund a FETAC level 6 course for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13 the reason they are unwilling to provide the same funding to this person during the first two years of a degree course in the same discipline; if this is in line with the national aftercare policy's commitment to provide...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Regulation of Sunbed Use (9 Jul 2013)

Róisín Shortall: 532. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce legislation to regulate the use of sunbeds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33335/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (9 Jul 2013)

Róisín Shortall: 545. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that access for general practitioners to lung function tests at the Mater Hospital, Dublin, is restored immediately in the interests of early diagnosis of asthma and emphysema and other lung diseases and the better health outcomes that result; and if he will request information from the hospital as to the short, medium and long-term cost...

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

Róisín Shortall: What is the Government playing at tonight? This nonsense of continuing until 5 a.m. is demeaning of everyone here in the House. It brings the House into complete disrepute and there is absolutely no need for it. I do not know what the Government's game is. I do not know what it is doing if it believes it is somehow smart or clever to allow people to tease out the legislation until the...

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

Róisín Shortall: I would like to elaborate on the issue of the lack of gestational limits. An extraordinary regime is proposed under which termination of pregnancy can take place right up to 39 weeks. At 39 weeks, there is a good chance the baby will be fine. Perhaps at 32 weeks that would also be the case but, as was pointed out earlier, the further one goes back to, say, 22 or 23 weeks, the greater the...

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

Róisín Shortall: I support these amendments, in particular those that relate to fatal foetal abnormality. I must admit that until recently I did not appreciate the extent of this issue nor that so many women and couples were affected by it. In recent months, however, I and many others have learned a great deal about this condition. We have heard the stories of couples who received these awful diagnoses for...

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

Róisín Shortall: It is Article 40.3.3°.

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

Róisín Shortall: It means have a referendum on it.

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

Róisín Shortall: The Minister of State did.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Róisín Shortall: Amendment No. 27 proposes to amend section 4 in respect of regulations. I have already expressed concern about the open ended nature of this provision for making regulations. It is unusual in legislation that the regulations proposed to be made are not specified in all instances. A number of speakers requested that the regulations be published in order to allow a full and thorough debate...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Róisín Shortall: I would like to clarify my position on my amendment No. 27. I absolutely welcome the provisions under sections 7 and 8 and, as far as I am concerned, there should be no question whatsoever of risking the life of the mother in the circumstances covered by sections 7 and 8. The issue I have sought to address, which was raised at the committee hearings and on Committee Stage of the Bill and...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Róisín Shortall: That is not the same, it is entirely different.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Róisín Shortall: I move amendment No. 27:In page 8, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following:“(c) to set gestational limits for termination of pregnancy.”.