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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 concur.

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 would like to address the issue of travel by the review committee in the round. The underlying policy we have is that a patient should be seen as near to home as possible, at the lowest level of complexity, in order to save time and be efficient. That means the services are provided as near to the patient as possible. That underpins what we are talking about. Our policy is changing in...

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: In the case of a review under section 9 there would nothing to prevent a GP from providing his premises as a suitable place for a review to take place.

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 refer Deputy O'Donnell to sections 7(1)(b) and 9(1)(b).

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: It is just written in a different way. I understand what the Deputy means but it is not necessary to change it.

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: It would not be in section 8 because that is the emergency.

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 write to the Deputy to explain what the construct is. It is constructed in a different way because in one case there is only a couple of doctors while in the other case there is a review team, so it is more specifically laid out there. The Deputy said it is only a technical thing. I do not have a huge problem with it.

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, we can look at it.

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: It would technically include e-mail.

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 amendment represents a radical change to the Bill which is not acceptable. It is important to bear in mind that the treating team is under an explicit statutory duty to have regard to the need to preserve unborn human life as far as practicable. The Bill requires the treating team to have regard to the right to life of both the woman and the unborn in accordance with Article...

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: Can I return to the matter on Report Stage? I hear what people have said. There is the part about the advocate on behalf of the unborn, which we have already covered and really is not workable. I will respond to the point made about the wording "to hear the woman or a person acting on her behalf".

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 person must have her consent to act on her behalf.

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 move amendment No. 67: In page 13, line 39, to delete “this”.The purpose of the amendment is to correct a drafting error.

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 could not have put it better myself. I need to know the registration numbers of the doctors carrying out and certifying procedures to ensure there is no abuse. That is for the Minister to know, but publishing them would expose doctors to a witchhunt, which I do not think is appropriate and of which I disapprove. Section 20 of the Bill covers notifications and sets out, in some detail,...

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 move amendment No. 69: In page 14, line 3, to delete “year” and substitute the following:“year, and the Minister shall, as soon as may be after receiving the report, cause copies of the report to be laid before each House of the Oireachtas”.I wish to insert amendments Nos. 69 and 73 as, in the interests of transparency, it is appropriate that reports on 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: Deputy Ó Cuív raised the issue of increasing numbers. I would pick up such a development very quickly when I would look at the monthly notifications. I have the power, once I invoke the Health Information and Quality Authority, HIQA, to investigate, to suspend the service if I am concerned about safety. Such a suspension would remain in place until HIQA has reported back to me....

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: A report will be laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas. I am sure this committee will know that has happened, in the normal way that it always knows when issues or reports relating to it are laid before the Houses. It knows when the HSE annual report is laid before the Houses. I assure Deputy Conway that the refusals on review will be recorded in addition to the ones that are...

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: Heaven forbid.

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 think I have made my position clear on this. I do not have any further comment to make, other than to respond to Deputy O'Donnell, who asked where it was in the Bill. It is in section 2(2).

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 was the purpose of it. It is stated in section 15: (1) The Executive shall, not later than 30 June in each year, prepare and submit to the Minister a report on the operation of this Chapter in the immediately preceding year. [So it is the executive that will prepare the report]. (2) Notwithstanding the generality of subsection (1), a report under this section shall, in respect of the...