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Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: He is playing to the gallery.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: We have heard both sides and I am appealing for a reasoned debate. There is no need for the sideshows. This is too serious an issue as Deputy Tóibín and others have stated. We know what has happened around the world. We know the experience in Finland, where they parade the fact that they will be Down's syndrome free by 2020. That is a shocking indictment. Deputy Durkan and...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The amendment requires that the doctor performing an abortion takes all appropriate and practical steps to avoid causing pain to the foetus. Where the gestational age of the baby is 20 weeks or more the doctor must ensure the administration of an anaesthetic or analgesic to the foetus prior to carrying out a termination of pregnancy. However, this obligation does not apply in an emergency...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am extremely disappointed and flabbergasted that is all the Minister would say, that he could just say we would be interfering with the clinicians and obstetricians. It is a feeble answer. Am I surprised? No. Why do we want to see this in the Bill? Because we do not trust you. A sizeable majority of people do not want you, even people who voted yes do not trust you. How could they?...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: -----that was sent out in 2011 by him, when he was Councillor Simon Harris, to pro-life people in Wicklow. "Dear [whoever], I am contesting the general election in Wicklow for Fine Gael and am happy and proud to assure you that I am pro-life."

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: "In response to your two direct questions, ... yes, if elected to the Dáil I will oppose any legislation to introduce abortion in Ireland. ... Yes, I will support legislation that protects the human embryo from deliberate destruction and I will oppose any legislation that does not. Please be assured of my support. I need number 1 votes on Friday so I can be in a position to support...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: That was signed by the Minister when he was a councillor in 2011.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am speaking to the amendment. I am horrified that the Minister will not accept the amendment. I have a copy of the letter in my hand to give to him when I finish. Many thousands more letters were sent out by Phil Hogan. I will ask this Parliamentary Usher to please pass the letter to the Minister for Health. I thank the Usher. That is what it is. It is just a mockery. If people know...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I appreciate that. How can we trust him if that is all the Minister can say after all the passion pleas that were made to him here by the Members?

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: How can they trust in the Minister?

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: How can anyone trust the Minister?

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: He does not believe they have any rights.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am saddened and shocked - we all are. We said all along - and I repeated it earlier - that we accept totally where an intervention has to be made in an emergency in terms of anything that would affect the health or the life of the mother. The Minister does not have to pick up on that. That is quite clear and understood by all of us. Some abortion advocates claim that the unborn child...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I move amendment No. 38:In page 11, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following: “Protection of Infants born alive 16. (1) In this section, “born alive” means the complete emergence of a foetus from the body of the woman, regardless of the state of gestational development, who, after emergence, whether or not the umbilical cord has been cut or the placenta is...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: That is a disgraceful comment. It is outrageous.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: That is tolerance all right.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am sorry I missed some of the Minister's contribution. I had to go out to get a charger for my phone. This is a most basic request regarding an abortion which goes wrong in the eyes of the unfortunate woman who wants it for whatever reason unfortunately and in those of the professional engaged to carry out the act. We have cases and I have given them to the Minister. I have provided him...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I think this is horrific and despicable. I respect what Deputy Harty said. He is a member of my group and I respect his knowledge. I too, thankfully, have a very healthy grandchild. How dare Deputy O'Connell lecture us about fairy tales or anything else. She shut me out of the committee. I brought in a video of an animated abortion. I asked the chairperson and everybody at the...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I move amendment No. 41:In page 14, line 29, to delete "or section 14certification" and substitute ", section 14certification or section 23certification". Amendment No. 41 relates to certification of the records that are kept and the fact that practitioners and people carrying out abortion procedures will be expected to keep records. In the discussion on previous amendments, the Minister and...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: No manners.