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

Joan Collins: I refer to amendment No. 60, the amendment we tabled in this grouping. It takes up the issue of the classification of "an unborn human life" and substitutes "a pregnancy". It tries to take out the worst elements of this Bill in terms of handling the situation of a woman, because that is what it should be about. The points have been made. This should be about the protection of the life of...

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

Joan Collins: I move amendment No. 7:In page 5, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following:“ “appropriately qualified practitioner” means a general practitioner, medical practitioner, midwife, obstetrician, gynaecologist, as defined in this Act;”.This amendment is about broadening the Bill. That does not mean we are supportive of it in its present draft. It proposes to...

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

Joan Collins: As far as I am aware, GPs are covered under the Medical Council in respect of ethics and so on. Why is the obstetrician there? Just being registered with the Medical Council is not a good enough reason to explain why an obstetrician is included and a GP is not included. I do not accept what the Minister of State is saying and I do not see why he cannot accept the amendment.

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

Joan Collins: We would like to reduce the number of practitioners to two or one but we know that would never be accepted. We hoped the Government might at least accept this amendment. An obstetrician could refuse a termination to a woman with suicidal intent on the basis of suicidal ideation. Many people do not believe an obstetrician is in a position to make that decision when a psychiatrist is already...

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

Joan Collins: When we put forward Deputy Daly's Bill twice last year, if we had known that we could have formed legislation around fatal foetal abnormalities, we would have done so. In the discussion of those Bills, we heard from families who told a tragic story to the Minister and the world about those desperate issues. They received support and legal advice related to the D case in the European Court...

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

Joan Collins: It is about the commitment to having a referendum.

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

Joan Collins: Will the Government commit to it?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Psychological Assessments (10 Jul 2013)

Joan Collins: 136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will investigate the fact that a school (details supplied) in County Dublin has requested assessment for eight students for special needs assistant support and only one student has been assessed by the National Educational Psychological Service, NEPS, and they have yet to receive the report from NEPS. [33686/13]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (10 Jul 2013)

Joan Collins: 179. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if grants are available for Irish dancing groups to assist them in attending world championships; and if he will list those grants and the way to apply for them. [33700/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (10 Jul 2013)

Joan Collins: 228. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the proposals put forward by the co-ordinator of the Dominican Campus School Completion Programme with the support of the three primary schools (details supplied); if she has considered the proposals; and if she will respond to same. [33690/13]

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

Joan Collins: Yes, and it relates to the amendments of Deputies Higgins and Boyd Barrett dealing with categorisation of incest and rape of women, which are some of the most heinous crimes that can be committed against women or men in certain circumstances. A woman can become pregnant with an unwanted child as a result of such an act. Some of the Government representatives yesterday indicated again that...

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

Joan Collins: I move amendment No. 21:In page 7, to delete lines 10 to 12 and substitute the following:“ “unborn”, means a foetus which has reached that stage of development at which, if born, it would be capable of life outside the womb;”.

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

Joan Collins: I move amendment No. 31:In page 8, between lines 27 and 28, to insert the following: “CHAPTER 1 Medical treatment lawful under this Act Rape and incest, risk to health and risk to well-being of the woman 7. (1) It shall be lawful for a woman, following consultation with her general practitioner, to obtain a termination of pregnancy if--(a) she believes her health, physical or...

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

Joan Collins: I move amendment No. 72:In page 10, line 19, to delete “an obstetrician who practises as such at an appropriate institution” and substitute “a general practitioner or a medical practitioner of a relevant specialty”.

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

Joan Collins: I move amendment No. 97:In page 12, to delete line 2 and substitute the following:"(a) a general practitioner or a medical practitioner of a relevant speciality, and".

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

Joan Collins: I move amendment No. 147:In page 16, to delete lines 33 to 39, and in page 17, to delete lines 1 to 32.

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

Joan Collins: I move amendment No. 150:In page 17, to delete lines 33 to 39, and in page 18, to delete lines 1 and 2 and substitute the following: “Offences 22. (1) It shall be an offence--(a) to intentionally or recklessly end a pregnancy without the consent of the pregnant woman, (b) for a person other than an appropriately qualified practitioner to perform a surgical medical procedure for the...

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

Joan Collins: I ask the Minister to take the opportunity to remove it or to give a commitment that he remove it in the near future. Along with the number of medics diagnosing suicidal ideation, the lack of clarification of the definition of the unborn, the lack of clarity for the medical profession in respect of the imminent threat to the life of a woman, this is another section which makes this the most...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Issues (16 Jul 2013)

Joan Collins: The Minister of State should admit to the reality that we have a housing crisis. This is the main issue that comes through my door every day. People come having waited ten years for a housing allocation and with problems with transfers. The rental accommodation scheme is drying up. Some landlords figure they can get more from the private rental schemes than the RAS. We are moving to a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Issues (16 Jul 2013)

Joan Collins: No real plan is in place.