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Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I know what Deputy Donnelly is trying to do and his intentions are very good. In respect of the phrase "all maternity" services, people engage in many things during pregnancy that we could never expect the State to cover, such as yoga and well-being classes. The term "all maternity services" would cover a very broad church. On the drugs issue, Deputy Donnelly mentioned a particular drug,...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I thank the Chairman for chairing the meetings for the past three days and compliment him on his management of the committee.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Deputies who are not members of the committee cannot call for a vote.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Deputies who are not committee members can call for a vote.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I understand from where the Minister is coming. Although I would be very supportive in the future of prescribing midwives and clinical pharmacists being involved in the provision of service, Deputy Tóibín is correct that the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment envisaged the provision of services being GP-led. However, if a review can be agreed upon, that provision...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Yes.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Can we not let amendment No. 6 fall and move on? Would that not be the quickest option?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Let amendment No. 6 fall and move to amendment No. 7.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Or whatever.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: My amendment No. 9 is very much related to amendment No. 7. I take on board what the Minister said about the legal advice. I am concerned about the language here. We have spoken a number of times this morning about respecting the will expressed by the people in May. In keeping with that sense, we must constantly focus on who is the person at the centre of all of this, which is the woman....

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I agree with Deputy O'Reilly's comments. To my mind there is an issue with amendment No. 7 in that the word "abortion" is in it and we heard this morning that there is a constitutional issue there. I would like to be able to support the amendment if a vote was called but obviously my preference is for amendment No. 9, which I tabled. I think we could park all four amendments, Nos. 7 to 10,...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: He did not meet me. He never said "meet".

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I agree with the Minister's suggestion of further engagement. I do not want to suggest anything would have unintended consequences or cause problems for the medical experts and I agree that this has to be operable. When we received all the amendments the other day, I applied a basic principle of looking at them with two points in mind, namely, who we are doing it for and who we are doing it...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I move amendment No. 9:In page 6, lines 12 and 13, to delete “a medical procedure which is intended to end the life of a foetus” and substitute “a medical or surgical procedure which is intended to end a pregnancy”.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: That is twisting things.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I had indicated before the Minister's contribution and I cannot improve on it. The Sláintecare policy is one of universal access and reducing barriers and costs. I do not want to rerun committee or referendum work, but we heard extensive evidence of women in situations of domestic violence who might not have been able to access funds. This is about compassion and women and not...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Not if it is not moved here.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: It has to be submitted.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I am sorry. What did the Chairman say after amendments Nos. 16 to 21, inclusive?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: We are discussing a grouping of amendments, amendments Nos. 16 to 21, inclusive. Amendments Nos. 17 and 20 are in my name. Chairman, do I discuss these now?