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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (30 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: 106. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to serious issues at a direct provision centre (details supplied); and the steps he will take to address same. [51322/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Report (30 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: 107. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department will accept the criticisms and recommendations of the Ombudsman report opportunity lost into the Magdalen restorative justice scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51323/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Report (30 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: 108. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when he will implement the Ombudsman's recommendation to review applications that were refused on the grounds that they had been admitted to a training centre or industrial school located in the same building or attached the grounds of one of the laundries. [51324/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Report (30 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: 109. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on whether it is his Department's remit to oversee the development of robust guidelines on the operation of future restorative or redress schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51325/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Ireland Funding (30 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: 178. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 354 and 359 of 14 November 2017, his views on the fact that public funds are channelled to hunt clubs via Horse Racing Ireland's point to point grants in view of the fact that Horse Racing Ireland receives public funding through the Horse and Greyhound fund administered by his Department....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Ireland Funding (30 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: 179. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the fact that public funds are channelled to hunt clubs via Horse Racing Ireland to meet the cost of providing doctors at each point to point a cost which was previously borne by point to point organisers. [51295/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment (30 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: 213. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the incident of Intreo personnel sending an official letter to a person (details supplied) placing an onus on them to make contact with their abuser in order to secure financial support; her plans to ensure that this does not reoccur for persons seeking one parent family payments. [51291/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE (30 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: There is no legal impediment to adoption. It is legal in this State and anybody who has a crisis pregnancy and who chooses that as an outcome can do it. Deputy Fitzpatrick seems to be concerned that there are not enough children. The only alternative is that we reverse the Chinese policy of restricting numbers of children and mandate every woman to have four children. Then, if she cannot...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE (30 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: Given the amount of debate on abortion and taking up Deputy O'Connell's point that prevention is better than cure, could I respectfully suggest that a key part of our strategy should be on developing a policy for universal contraception access and undertaking studies? There is a contradiction in law such that people younger than 16 have the right to make decisions about their health care...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE (30 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: What about the difference between medical consent at the age of 16 and sexual consent at the age of 17?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE (30 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: One of the points which did not make the ancillary recommendation list but which featured very highly in the other opinions of the Citizens' Assembly relates to decriminalisation. In the presentations, the question of who will fund and carry out terminations arose. I think Dr. McKenna made the point about not getting licences for abortion pills and so on would not be an impediment to use....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE (30 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: In the event of the eighth amendment being repealed, the protection of life provision being changed and the criminalisation aspect being removed, there would be nothing to stop that pill being available.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE (30 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: On that basis, I take it that the HSE would support the call of GPs to have a more enhanced role, particularly in the areas of medical abortion and the fact that over 80% of abortions would take place in the early stages of pregnancy and could be accommodated by the abortion pill, for example.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE (30 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: If the abortion pill is relatively cheap and a GP prescribes it, the cost would not be enormous.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE (30 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: Which is the cheap one? We know the tablet is cheap. Is Dr. McKenna saying the doctors are dear?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE (30 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: The point I am making is that it is a relatively simple procedure in the context of Dr. McKenna's points about-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE (30 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: The point I am trying to register is from a cost and service provision point of view and concerns the witnesses advising us as a committee. What they are saying, I think, is that the facility to have, for example, the abortion pill would be far cheaper, more accessible and better for women's health, but also better from the point of view of putting less pressure on our health service, for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE (30 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: My last question is whether the working group the Department has with the Minister for Health is on target for a May referendum, which is-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE (30 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: Good.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE (30 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: Is that a "Yes"?