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Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Properties (9 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: Management of the health care property estate is a service matter. Therefore your question has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: I thank the vast majority of speakers for the tone they have adopted but I regret that of Deputy Boyd Barrett, and also the fact that he would deliberately seek to omit the right to life of the unborn, which is implicit in this Bill on the protection of the life in pregnancy of both mother and unborn child. As the last speaker noted, what was lacking in legislation would not have been what...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: What has this got to do with the amendments?

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: To which amendment is the Deputy referring?

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: The definition of the unborn is from the Attorney General, and it is for the purposes of this Act alone. Deputies Boyd Barrett and Daly raised that issue. I accept that everybody has a conscience and strongly held views and beliefs, but I believe the Bill gives clarity to women on their legal entitlements and how to access them, and to doctors and nurses who must deliver that service. I...

Topical Issue Debate: Lourdes Hospital Redress Scheme Extension (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: The Lourdes Hospital redress scheme was established following the findings and recommendations contained in the report on peripartum hysterectomy at the hospital, The Lourdes Hospital Inquiry, published in 2006. The inquiry was conducted by Ms Justice Maureen Harding Clark.The inquiry did not extend to a wider examination of Dr. Michael Neary's general practice or of the clinical practice of...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: Lock them up.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: This is a substantive part of the Bill, about which many people have concerns. I acknowledge it is particularly difficult for some Members. The Minister of State, Deputy Creighton, talked about the lack of a treatment plan or a pathway of care, yet one psychiatrist I can quote described the Bill as creating this pathway of care. She mentioned the issue of retired Supreme Court judge, Mr....

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: The Supreme Court interprets the Constitution; we make laws. When the court makes a clear and definitive statement as to the basic law, as legislators, we must listen. The test in Attorney General v. X is not obiter dictum, as others have said. It is one of the clearest statements of the basic law the court has given. It has been understood as such since the judgment was delivered in 1992...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: When the Statute Book is silent on matters of life and death, great mischief can occur. We remedy that through this Bill. Twice the Supreme Court confirmed that the X case decision is the state of our law in the baby O case in 2002 and in Roche v. Roche in 2010. If the court wanted to alter or vary the decision in any way, it could have done so but it did not. The Minister for Justice and...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: Deputy Durkan was supportive. Deputy Shortall made points that were well dealt with by the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter and the Minister of State, Deputy White. Deputy Bannon asked about markers. There are no biochemical markers in respect of the mental health issue of suicide and risk thereof. There are no control trials per se. Does the name reflect the reality...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: A range of views have been expressed and I have responded to all of them. I have made it clear that we cannot be prescriptive in medicine and that a psychiatrist has described the Bill as a pathway to care. It would not be useful to repeat our discussion. This is the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill. The phrase "protection of life" refers to the mother and the unborn. I respect...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: These amendments deal with the issue of consent, something we discussed at some length on Committee Stage. This issue was addressed in section 16, which clearly states that the provisions of the Bill will operate within the existing legal provisions in regard to consent for medical procedures. The guide to professional conduct and ethics for registered medical practitioners of the Medical...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: I thank all contributors to this part of the debate. Amendment No. 21 states:In page 7, to delete lines 10 to 12 and substitute the following:“ “unborn”, means a foetus which has reached that stage of development at which, if born, it would be capable of life outside the womb;”.What would that mean for a perfectly normal 16 week old foetus with no anomalies? It...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Genetically Modified Organisms (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: Ireland adopts a “positive but precautionary” stance on GMO food and feed matters, considers the advice of EFSA with regard to authorisations, and votes with the European Commission once assured of the safety of the product. The only GM food ingredients that are authorised in the EU and that may, as a consequence, be marketed in Ireland are soya bean, maize, oilseed rape,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Air Ambulance Service Provision (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: In relation to the particular query raised by the Deputy, as this is a service issue, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy in this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Issues (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 238 to 240, inclusive, together. The National Treatment Purchase Fund Board was established in 2004 (S.I. No. 179 of 2004). Membership of the Board of the NTPF, as well as accountability and reporting arrangements are set out in its Establishment Order; the SI provides for a Board of nine members which reports to the Minister. In July 2011, I announced...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Diabetes Strategy (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: I understand that the Health Service Executive responded to the Deputy in relation to this matter on 2nd July 2013.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Symphysiotomy Report (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: As the Deputy is aware, my Department has commissioned an independent research report in relation to the practice of symphysiotomy in Ireland. It is my intention to brief the Government on the report prior to its publication and I also intend to meet with representatives from all of the symphysiotomy support groups prior to the release of the report. The independent research report has not...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Legal Cases (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: As this is an operational matter for the Health Service Executive I have referred the Deputy's question to the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive for attention and direct reply to him.