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Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We have a system under which there is a huge amount of European Union legislation, much of it pertaining to agriculture. Every few weeks we receive a long list of COMs-----

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We receive the A and B lists. Some of the documents relate to olive oil and all sorts of items that have no relevance to this country.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We immediately decide not to suggest any amendment or change and that is the end of the matter. However, now and again, a document is brought before us with which we have an issue and we pursue the issue. What we are suggesting in this case is quite simple, that regulations to include the name of a hospital be brought before the committee. If there is no issue with this, it would take the...

Other Questions: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (3 Jul 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 24. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the implications for the education budget in 2014 of the additional resource teachers announced on 25 June 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32280/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (3 Jul 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a reply will issue to representations made by this Deputy on behalf of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32525/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Housing Issues (3 Jul 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 153. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application for a relocation grant lodged by a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay in issuing this payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32316/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid Applications (3 Jul 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 182. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason that there are delays in giving new appointments to persons seeking the assistance of the Free Legal Aid Board;his plans to provide extra resources to eliminate these waiting lists; the average waiting time for an appointment from the board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32330/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (3 Jul 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 210. To ask the Minister for Health the reason persons who are in their seventieth year cannot apply for a medical card for over seventies, in the months leading up to their seventieth birthday, which would ensure that they had the card received by their seventieth birthday, as opposed to the present practice whereby persons cannot apply for a medical card for over seventies, until they are...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Schedule contains a large list of hospitals. Have the hospitals agreed to be on the Schedule?

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can I ask the Minister another question?

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister is saying there is no right of refusal. There are hospitals which are private institutions, and they could refuse. The only sanction the Minister could take in that case, I take it, is to withdraw the money?

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: Okay, but they can refuse. Is that not correct?

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: No. They might practically decide to refuse to be on the list.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: We can discuss the conscientious objection dilemma again when it arises later in the Bill. I want to make it clear that I have no issue with section 7 or 8. I presume that if there is a real and substantial risk to the life of the mother a doctor is utterly obligated to preserve her life. That has always been the medical practice and it would be outrageous if this were not the case. I do...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am discussing the purpose of the amendment. Section 4(1)(a) gives the Minister the power to make an order and states "for any matter referred to in this Act as prescribed." When the phrase "as prescribed" is used in the Bill, it means the Minister is allowed to make an order on that subject. I get a bit woolly on the limitations of this legislation. Section 4(1)(b) states: "for any...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: Section 19, which deals with certification, specifies that a certification "shall be made in the prescribed form and manner". That seems fine. However, it also stipulates that the certification must "contain the prescribed information". In other words, the question of what information is included on the form will be decided by the Minister. This sub-committee would be very interested in...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: -----while at the same time there is a refusal to put into law a requirement that the relevant Oireachtas committees examine statutory instruments.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: The point I am making is that the Minister's very dismissive view is particularly disappointing when he could so easily accept the amendment. I realise, of course, that he is getting advice from his officials that it would mean more work for them and that he should instead keep life simple - that legislative scrutiny is not something we really need to take seriously when it comes to...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: Nobody made that claim.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: I wish to respond to what the Minister of State said.