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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Obstetric Medicine in the Netherlands: Professor Sjef Gevers and Professor Eva Pajkrt, University of Amsterdam (23 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: While we have to use statistics in evidence, in terms of comparisons, the Dutch model is quite different from the British one, which is the one with which we are more familiar here. The figure we have been given for Britain is 92% of terminations taking place at less than 13 weeks, while the figure for the Netherlands is 81%. I know that there is a very high number in Holland that take...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Obstetric Medicine in the Netherlands: Professor Sjef Gevers and Professor Eva Pajkrt, University of Amsterdam (23 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: More terminations take place at less than 13 weeks in the UK than in the Netherlands.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Obstetric Medicine in the Netherlands: Professor Sjef Gevers and Professor Eva Pajkrt, University of Amsterdam (23 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: Yes, and in the UK, the rate is 92%.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Obstetric Medicine in the Netherlands: Professor Sjef Gevers and Professor Eva Pajkrt, University of Amsterdam (23 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: I was just curious. Briefly, on the criminalisation issue-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Obstetric Medicine in the Netherlands: Professor Sjef Gevers and Professor Eva Pajkrt, University of Amsterdam (23 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: Just in terms of the whole area of criminalisation, the need to decriminalise in Ireland has been a regular feature at this committee. Evidence has been given, across the board, from the medical profession that it has a real chilling effect on medical practice here. That does not seem to exist in the Netherlands. Is there any sanction? Basically, what the witnesses are saying is that it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Obstetric Medicine in the Netherlands: Professor Sjef Gevers and Professor Eva Pajkrt, University of Amsterdam (23 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: It is criminalising illegal abortions or back street abortions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Obstetric Medicine in the Netherlands: Professor Sjef Gevers and Professor Eva Pajkrt, University of Amsterdam (23 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: It provides a certain protection for women in that there is no sanction-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Obstetric Medicine in the Netherlands: Professor Sjef Gevers and Professor Eva Pajkrt, University of Amsterdam (23 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: That is important because I think the Dutch model, which is striking, is based on the idea of careful decision making, which is timely in light of what we discussed here yesterday. I was struck by the point that everybody's circumstances are different. The witnesses identified, which supports this as being a really good model, the importance of having non-specific language. How does one...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Obstetric Medicine in the Netherlands: Professor Sjef Gevers and Professor Eva Pajkrt, University of Amsterdam (23 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: An emergency is a very individual thing. What is an emergency for one person is not for another.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Obstetric Medicine in the Netherlands: Professor Sjef Gevers and Professor Eva Pajkrt, University of Amsterdam (23 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: The issue of consent is key here. Medical treatment is based on the consent of the patient or the person at the heart of it, a willingness to accept treatment or indeed, a right to refuse it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Obstetric Medicine in the Netherlands: Professor Sjef Gevers and Professor Eva Pajkrt, University of Amsterdam (23 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: In Ireland, our medical ethics are based on that, with the exception, which is specified in our health policy, of pregnant women in cases where it is perceived that there is a risk to the foetus. Midwives and other representatives of our health service have told us that this has created a climate of fear in terms of the provision of medical care and so on and has coerced the medical...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Obstetric Medicine in the Netherlands: Professor Sjef Gevers and Professor Eva Pajkrt, University of Amsterdam (23 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: If the witness were my doctor and I were pregnant and she wanted me to have a caesarean section but I wanted a natural delivery, could she, as my doctor, tell me she believed I might be jeopardising the baby's life and, therefore, compel me to have a caesarean section?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Obstetric Medicine in the Netherlands: Professor Sjef Gevers and Professor Eva Pajkrt, University of Amsterdam (23 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: That is very helpful. I thank Professor Pajkrt.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Obstetric Medicine in the Netherlands: Professor Sjef Gevers and Professor Eva Pajkrt, University of Amsterdam (23 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: These are children who do not have the freedom to travel. Anybody else in a similar crisis situation would travel.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Detention Centres (28 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: 54. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to ensure that mental health needs at Oberstown children detention campus are being met in view of data collected by the centre relating to over 55% of detainees described as having a mental health need; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50173/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Detention Centres (28 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: 68. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the findings of the HIQA inspection of Oberstown children detention campus in regard to the concerns raised regarding periods of prolonged isolation; and the way in which she plans to address these concerns in order to safeguard the wellbeing of the children detained there. [50174/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Paradise Papers. (28 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: 119. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to companies and persons mentioned in papers (details supplied); if so, the actions he has taken towards these companies. [50234/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax (28 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: 120. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of profit reported and the amount of corporation tax paid by the top 50 Irish builders over the past 25 to 30 years; and the way in which that compares to reported revenues by the 50 Irish builders over the past 25 to 30 years. [50235/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Construction Industry (28 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: 121. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of new houses that were built and sold by the top 50 Irish builders over the past 25 to 30 years. [50236/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Public Private Partnerships (28 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: 122. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether public money should be provided to tax-avoiding builders under PPP schemes. [50238/17]