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- Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)
Simon Harris: Yes.
- Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)
Simon Harris: I think I have said it already.
- Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)
Simon Harris: We hear a lot about opinion polls, Amárach being one, but we had a really big one where people went out and voted in the referendum in May. The people have made their decision. As politicians, we all take passing interest to various degrees in opinion polls but the only one that matters is the ballot. People made their decision in respect of this. This is not an amendment about...
- Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)
Simon Harris: No, not see.
- Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)
Simon Harris: No problem.
- Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)
Simon Harris: I do not recall that.
- Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)
Simon Harris: But to have one.
- Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)
Simon Harris: I thank Deputies for the debate. I am not in a position to accept this amendment which is indistinguishable from the amendment on the same subject put forward on Committee Stage. We had a long discussion and vote on that amendment then. While I can see that the amendment is proposed with the care of infants in mind - and I do not question the Deputy's bona fides in that regard at all -...
- Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)
Simon Harris: Yes.
- Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)
Simon Harris: I hope the Deputy will also change his view one day.
- Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)
Simon Harris: My constituents have endorsed my view by voting overwhelmingly in favour of repealing the eighth amendment, as did Deputy Mattie McGrath's. To answer Deputy Tóibín's question, it is somebody else's job to this. It is the job of the obstetric community. Those pro-life Deputies in the House - and I think we all consider ourselves to be pro-life - who are against the legislation...
- Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)
Simon Harris: I am not blaming him; I just tend to take medical advice from him which I think is a better idea than-----
- Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)
Simon Harris: I think it is better than taking medical advice from politicians, including me, who are not medically qualified in how to carry out obstetric practice. However, that is just my view of the world. This unearthing of a commitment I made in 2011, which obviously does not relate to the amendment, but which a number of people are referencing, is no unearthing. The Deputy is right; that was...
- Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)
Simon Harris: I am delighted we are going to live in a country with compassion and care.
- Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)
Simon Harris: I thank the Deputies for raising the matter. I understand the points they are trying to raise but, as I did outline clearly on Committee Stage, I cannot accept the proposal to include a separate section in the Bill which would provide for the administration of an anaesthetic to a foetus where the gestational age of the foetus is 20 weeks or more because, as I explained on Committee Stage...
- Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)
Simon Harris: The Deputy is not speaking to the amendment.
- Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)
Simon Harris: This is not on the amendment.
- Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)
Simon Harris: Acting Chairman, this is not on the amendment.
- Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)
Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 29:In page 10, to delete lines 34 to 38 and substitute the following:"(2) A termination of pregnancy shall not be carried out under this section unless the medical practitioner referred to in subsection (1)has certified his or her opinion as to the matter referred to in that subsection".
- Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)
Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 35:In page 11, to delete lines 1 to 4 and substitute the following:"(3) The termination of pregnancy shall not be carried out by a medical practitioner unless a period of not less than 3 days has elapsed from—(a) the date of certification under subsection (2)by that medical practitioner, or (b) where a certification was previously made in respect of the pregnancy...