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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Minor Works Scheme (28 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: 202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date by which the minor works grant will be made available to primary schools; if this grant will be a guaranteed yearly payment in order to assist schools to adequately budget for the year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50488/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Physical Education (28 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: 218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to concerns raised on behalf of an association (details supplied); the way in which he plans to address these concerns; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that only 12% of young persons are meeting the guideline of 60 minutes of physical activity per day; his plans to address concerns on the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (28 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: 556. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address issues regarding the disjointed nature of the bus lane along the N3, where at almost all junctions the bus must move out of the bus lane into traffic and then move back into the bus lane; if he will ensure buses can move more efficiently along the N3 without impediment; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

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

Jack Chambers: 581. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the fact that large numbers of child care providers are continuing to increase fees following the introduction of the universal child care subsidy resulting in a loss of benefit to parents; the steps she is taking to address this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50291/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Corps (29 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: 548. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the full year savings achieved by the abolition of the service commitment incentive scheme for Air Corps personnel. [50903/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: I thank Professor O'Neill for his excellent submission and his presentation which builds on what Dr. McQuillan outlined to the committee last week. He described very well the interdependence of the ethical framework and how it is important not to specifically and exclusively focus on one aspect to facilitate one argument and that we are all interdependent. I was concerned last week in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: Is there evidence from other countries that the so-called right to die has been transitioned to a duty to die? Is there evidence that familial pressures have resulted in the rocketing statistics elsewhere and that the procedure is not of the patients' choosing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: That leads to my next question which concerns the medical profession. Last week there was a disagreement between two delegates. One said a doctor did not have to be involved. Does Professor O’Neill agree that there would be an imposition on the medical profession if any regime was imported and that there is no regime anywhere that excludes doctors?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: How have they justified their actions under the ethical framework or principles Professor O’Neill has described?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: Professor O'Neill mentioned different membership patterns in the UK and Irish human rights commissions. Has he communicated his concerns about the over-concentration of lawyers and the absence of philosophers to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission in that context?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: I thank Dr. Campbell for her submission and her presentation. We heard from Professor Desmond O'Neill in the previous session. How does Dr. Campbell balance the principle of autonomy with the framework of care? How does a doctor square the argument of beneficence, non-maleficence, doing no harm, justice and the other fundamental ethical principles? How does Dr. Campbell balance the care...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: How does assisted suicide benefit a person?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: How is it doing good, or how is it not doing harm, if one defines assisting a someone's death as doing something that is not harmful? How does Dr. Campbell square that philosophically?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: That can happen anyway-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: Under a palliative care treatment algorithm, can we not relieve that pain and harm?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: Can Dr. Campbell name an international medical framework that incorporates assisted suicide under the treatment algorithm?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: As in the treatment of patients - that is what doctors do. Can Dr. Campbell name a medical framework that incorporates what her submission has detailed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: Are they medical frameworks or are they legal frameworks?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: At the conclusion of her submission, Dr. Campbell noted "not until vast improvements are made in the provision and organisation of services to support those living with disability, mental illness or chronic physical conditions and in the provision of accessible, effective palliative care services should any legal changes be implemented". Is Dr. Campbell saying that we need to hit the utopia...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2017)

Jack Chambers: Would the witness have concerns about some of the other jurisdictions that have extended this practice to children?