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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: As one would expect from a barrister, Deputy Michael McNamara's contribution was helpful. The reality is that the law is the law and we have to take the legal advice of the highest law officer, the Attorney General. The discretion is there for the Director of Public Prosecutions and the courts. While they have wisdom and knowledge of the law, they also have compassion. I do not believe...

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 respond to some of the points raised by Deputy Keaveney in the interest of accuracy. We did not arrive at a period of six months as a penalty. That is already provided for in the law. The Department of Justice and Equality is responsible for the proposal of 14 years and can explain the rationale behind it. Deputy O'Donnell asked about the legal basis of this provision. I can ask...

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 have thought it related to the original Act, which provided for penal servitude for life. In modern terms that is 14 years. I do not think the Minister for Justice and Equality could be accused of being ultra-conservative in these matters. Deputy Conway referred to a lacuna in the law. It is not for this Bill to fix such lacunae but it would be a very different matter if 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: This area is fraught and I understand what people have said and I accept their concerns. It is, as people have pointed out, the only place where we actually refer to intentionally destroying unborn human life. That phrase is not used anywhere else in this Bill. The issue of avoidance of doubt was to not have any chilling effect from the point of view of doctors, which Deputy Boyd Barrett...

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: 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: The amendment proposed by Deputy Healy and commented on by Deputy Boyd Barrett seeks the insertion of a new section 24 to the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill and essentially it aims to require a court to take certain factors into account as aggravating factors when sentencing a person convicted of certain existing offences under the Non-Fatal Offences against the Person Act 1997....

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 mid sentence.

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 factors the Deputy is seeking to have taken into account can be summed up as the commission of the listed offences against a woman who has sought treatment in accordance with the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill, against a medical practitioner providing treatment in accordance with the Bill or against a third person for facilitating or assisting the woman or the medical...

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 thank the Chairman and the committee for the courtesy shown and the tenor of the debate. I thank the Chairman, in particular, for his stewardship of it throughout the entire course of what have been extremely long discussions. These are probably some of the longest discussions on a particular piece of legislation and with good reason because it affects everybody in the country one way or...

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 thank my staff, the committee staff and the staff behind the glass wall who make this debate available to the greater, wider public. I also thank my staff at the Department, who worked extraordinarily hard to meet deadlines with large volumes of work. It has not been easy for them, but what we have produced to date reflects many of the concerns expressed by people. I also wish to thank...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." It is my pleasure today to introduce the Second Stage of the Health (Amendment) Bill 2013 to the Dáil. The Bill amends both the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act 2009 and the Health Act 1970, and has completed all Stages in the Seanad with no amendments. The main aim of the Bill is to facilitate the announcements made in budget 2013...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: The truth is not fragile; it will not break.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: I thank all of the Deputies for their contributions. I will raise a number of points, having listened to the debate. One of the issues raised by Deputy Kelleher is the number of people who have left the insurance market, approximately 250,000 in the past five or six years. We all know what happened in that time. Some 250,000 people probably equate to 100,000 families. We know that more...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: Several speakers, including Deputy Lowry, have used the industry's figures to say that premia will go up by 30%. I have made it clear that I have got actuarial figures that show quite a different scenario. Deputy Lowry does not seem to understand risk equalisation because he said that it would increase the cost for all adults. It does not. It is a transfer between adults who are young...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: This is in stark contrast to the Government of which Deputy Kelleher was part, which was hiding it under the carpet. It was never exposed or counted before because they did not want to know. To paraphrase Bill Clinton, is it not the case that the Deputy is giving out because it is taking me so long to clean up the mess in which his Government left the health services? Nowhere in our...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: Let us deal with the issues the Deputy raised. The number of patients waiting more than a year for an inpatient procedure is at its lowest level since records began. At the beginning of this year, the number of patients waiting more than a year for day case surgery is at its lowest level. Waiting lists in excess of a year for inpatient and day case procedures have been eliminated in 15...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: Am I not from the Government?

Health (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: They will all be here for the vote.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2013: Referral to Select Committee (4 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: I move:That the Bill be referred to the Select Sub-Committee on Health pursuant to Standing Orders 82A(3)(a) and (6)(a) and 126(1) of the Standing Orders relative to Public Business.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultants Recruitment (4 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: In relation to the particular queries raised by the Deputy, as these are service issues, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy in these matters.