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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

Paul Bradford: I want to direct my questions to the female members of the panel this morning. Over the past several days, a certain word has taken on a degree of currency. It has been suggested - perhaps alleged - that questioning the whole psychiatric issue and numbers using the suicide clause as an argument for abortion is an insult to women. Is it an insult to women? Are our current restrictions on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

Paul Bradford: I welcome the panel. I would be obliged if the individual groups would respond to my observation that the medical experts who presented here this week to a man and to a woman said that to the best of their knowledge, there has been no death in this country due to a lack of medical intervention. Do the groups agree or disagree with this? Action on X helpfully provided a timeline which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

Paul Bradford: I resent and am insulted by the comment on Choice Ireland's website. I ask the organisation to withdraw that juvenile, pathetic, irrelevant section on its website. It does not add to the debate in any respect.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

Paul Bradford: Does Ms Rooney disassociate herself from that position?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

Paul Bradford: I just wanted to ask her to dissociate herself from her own website.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

Paul Bradford: Is Ms Rooney hiding behind her website?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

Paul Bradford: And the C case?

Seanad: Community Development: Motion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

Paul Bradford: I thank Senator Conway and I thank Senator Norris for his most helpful but unruly intervention. Senator Jimmy Harte is the next listed speaker and he has six minutes.

Seanad: Community Development: Motion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

Paul Bradford: Senators should allow Senator Harte to speak without interruption.

Seanad: Community Development: Motion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

Paul Bradford: This would perhaps be a very suitable discussion for an Adjournment debate. Will Senator Harte please move to conclude his contribution and address the Chair if possible because while the interaction with Senator Ó Clochartaigh is entertaining it is not relevant to the debate?

Seanad: Community Development: Motion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2013)

Paul Bradford: Is the amendment being pressed?

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (30 Jan 2013)

Paul Bradford: I welcome the evolving debate but much of what has been raised by previous speakers is more substantive than the amendments. We are putting in place a new concept. Like all legislation one does not necessarily get it right the first time around. The proposal of a spent conviction facility is a new departure and will make a genuine difference to many people. Senator Healy Eames mentioned...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (30 Jan 2013)

Paul Bradford: I apologise to the Senator. I read it but mistook the proposal as being four years. We should be willing to keep the matter firmly on the table for review and to make changes if we discover that the system is not working as well as it should. Senator Healy Eames asked about the introduction date for the Bill. We know the offence to which the proposal applies, the 12 month maximum prison...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (30 Jan 2013)

Paul Bradford: Perhaps I should have spoken when Senator Cullinane moved amendment No. 27. I listened to the Minister of State's response to Senator Cullinane's amendment and it may be that the matter I raise has been addressed previously in this debate or on Second Stage. The rules that apply to spent convictions in Britain are probably more relevant than the position that obtains in Australia, New...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (30 Jan 2013)

Paul Bradford: Tomorrow at 10.30 a.m.

Seanad: Defence Forces (Second World War Amnesty and Immunity) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Feb 2013)

Paul Bradford: I welcome the Minister to the House. I thank him for his contribution and welcome the proposed legislation. In an hour or so the Minister will be debating the current Garda cutbacks and relocations with the House, perhaps in a more robust fashion, but this is a more reflective and conciliatory debate. We are discussing the events of the Second World War. In the course of history we should...

Seanad: Garda Resources: Motion (6 Feb 2013)

Paul Bradford: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after ??That??, and substitute the following:??? acknowledges the vital role of An Garda Síochána in providing security to the State and protection to the public; ? acknowledges the investment of ¤4m in the Garda fleet in 2012 which provided for the purchase of a total of 213 vehicles and the additional allocation of a dedicated ¤5m for the...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2013)

Paul Bradford: We certainly had interesting political drama in Leinster House yesterday and the proceedings continued long into the night. Senator Mary White referred to the long session on 30 September 2008. On that night, perhaps through nobody's fault or everybody's, we entered a very long tunnel of economic despair. Let us hope last night's late sitting in the Houses will be the beginning of the exit...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Feb 2013)

Paul Bradford: I agree with my colleague, Senator Mary Ann O'Brien, on the need to debate the subject of Irish Aid and how we spend money in the developing world. We should not be debarred by political correctness from asking hard questions as posed by Senator O'Brien because we must ensure that the money we spend, which is not the Government's but the taxpayer's money, is put to genuine developmental...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Feb 2013)

Paul Bradford: Could we have a genuine debate on a genuine topic of policing? Let us not start with a silly vote here on the Order of Business. Let us have a mature discussion.