Results 13,521-13,540 of 21,128 for speaker:James Reilly
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)
James Reilly: That is why we have this Bill and why we are having this debate. It is to clarify these matters for the doctors and for the women who need these services in order that they know what they are legally entitled to and, most important, how to access it. That was the tenor of the C case in the European Court of Human Rights.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)
James Reilly: No.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)
James Reilly: I was asked what happens to a child born at 30 weeks. The answer is that it will be same that happens at present if a child is born at 30 weeks. The child will be supported in the neonatal unit and go home with his or her parents or parent at the end. What happens, as I think Deputy Timmins was inferring, where the mother does not wish to bring the child home is that the child will be...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)
James Reilly: Before the Minister of State, Deputy White, comes in, if I may, there are the other questions. There is Deputy Mulherin's question on NAMA, which I was going to allow Deputy White answer because it is a technical, legal one, and then there is Deputy O'Donnell's one, which is-----
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)
James Reilly: -----the 1995 Act and the medical guidelines. On the medical guidelines, perhaps the chief medical officer might answer.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)
James Reilly: Okay.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)
James Reilly: If I could beg Deputy White's indulgence to facilitate Deputy O'Donnell-----
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)
James Reilly: -----this is a medical process, it is in process at present and there is no more to add until the medics come back with the guidelines.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)
James Reilly: Yes, but this will not be raised again.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)
James Reilly: While I do not profess to be in any way legal, I do know that the tenet of what the Attorney General has told us is that the Delaware case was related to people in a commercial relationship and that this is about the unborn in a very different type of relationship. I can come back with more comprehensive information on the issue at a later date, in fairness to Deputy Michelle Mulherin. ...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)
James Reilly: I apologise to the committee. That little bit slipped by me with regard to a woman refusing treatment. A doctor cannot certify if a woman refuses treatment. I thank the Deputy for catching this. I re-emphasise what I stated earlier today and yesterday. A doctor cannot certify and the test for certification cannot be met if, in his or her view, the woman has not availed of other...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)
James Reilly: I did not.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)
James Reilly: I will answer these questions now as they are very salient. In an instance where there is no mental illness - bear in mind that this is a clinical assessment which will take some time to form - the Deputy has asked what will happen if the suicidal ideation remains and the risk of suicide is high and real. The pregnancy will be terminated if it is the only way to avert the risk. The risk...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)
James Reilly: If the Deputy's question is that suicidal ideation is only an issue as a consequence of a child being born, clearly it is not possible for a doctor to certify in such circumstances. It cannot be.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)
James Reilly: Yes, it has to be the pregnancy. The Deputy also contends that the Taoiseach has stated this will not lead to a change in practice. This must be taken in the round. I presume we all accept that what we are trying to do - we have stated it time and again - is have clarity for the women of this country as to what is legally available and how to access it and to have clarity for the...
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)
James Reilly: I do, and I will answer again with a monosyllabic "No".
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)
James Reilly: The Minister of State wishes to discuss the guardian ad litem issue.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)
James Reilly: Gabh mo leithscéal. Ba maith liom cúpla focal a rá.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)
James Reilly: I ask the Minister of State to answer Deputy Michelle Mulherin's suggestion of a post-certification process in order that all papers are correct.
- Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)
James Reilly: Let me give the full answer and I will work my way back to Deputy Seán Conlon's question because he has raised a very important point. What I surmised from Deputy Denis Naughten's question was that in the absence of any underlying psychiatric illness - this would take some time to assess and ascertain - and the risk of suicide was serious - it was real and substantial - and the only...