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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Citizenship Applications (9 Jul 2013)

Michelle Mulherin: 141. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reciprocal arrangements that exist between Ireland and Australia for persons wishing to apply for citizenship in either jurisdiction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33463/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Status (9 Jul 2013)

Michelle Mulherin: 336. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on an appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; if she will expedite same due to the hardship the person is suffering due to limited income; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33462/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Slaughter Statistics (9 Jul 2013)

Michelle Mulherin: 454. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the breakdown of the average cost of disposal of an abandoned horse; the cost of picking up the horse and thereafter the cost of keeping and feeding the animal, putting it down and the removal and disposal of the remains; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33298/13]

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Michelle Mulherin: I know that the Minister of State, Deputy White, posed the question, if we can come up with something else, please do. Many of us have put a lot of thought into how the legislation might be amended and made more explicit in order to avoid the debate that we are having. We know what takes place in a court of law. One is given a brief, everybody argues each side and then one must see what...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Michelle Mulherin: Regarding representation and given the rarity of this event, would the Minister consider a situation in which the documentation - not a medical assessment, but the paperwork - was handed to a representative of the Attorney General once the certification was done to ensure that everything had been attended to procedurally? By the time a failure is reported to the Minister, the life of an...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Michelle Mulherin: My point is further to Deputy Creed's point regarding the right or the need for representation of the unborn. This is not just something that some quarters may think desirable. How is the legislation taking into account the 2011 court decision of Dellway Investments and others v. NAMA and others, which established in law that a third party legally affected by a decision-making body is...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Michelle Mulherin: The use of the maxim "justice delayed is justice denied" distracts from the fact that what we are ultimately referring to is a medical decision. We like to believe that such decisions are based on medical evidence and we are trying to provide a framework for this. The Minister referred earlier to the possibility that an emergency decision might have to be made. The comment I made was in...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Michelle Mulherin: My simple question was for the medical evidence to support it.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Michelle Mulherin: I refer to the response the Minister gave to my previous request or submission and I take issue with his suggestion that the inclusion of a pause or a cooling-off period could jeopardise women's lives. To what medical evidence is he pointing? I am not a medical person but-----

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Michelle Mulherin: Yes. I refer to the remarks of Dr. John Sheehan, perinatal psychiatrist, who noted at the hearings of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children that a speedy delivery of a baby is contra-indicated in psychiatry. This constitutes a significant difference between his field and that of obstetrics, where a rapid inducement is often favoured. As Dr. Sheehan outlined, there is a...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Michelle Mulherin: I am asking about findings. In any event-----

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Michelle Mulherin: It is relevant to the point I am making. My understanding of people practising in the field of psychiatry is that invariably, many forms of treatment can be tried. Moreover, because of the subjective nature of the entire field, this in fact is how psychiatrists ordinarily proceed to treat patients. Invariably, there is one common denominator in this regard and that is time. The time...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Michelle Mulherin: To return to the issue of treatments, we have received many assurances from the Minister that all treatment options will be explored and, as a result, abortion will be a rare occurrence. While I accept the Minister's assurances, when I read the section, even as amended, it simply sets out a procedure whereby a woman, having her medical condition assessed, can establish her legal eligibility...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Michelle Mulherin: On the subject of good faith, I have put this to the Minister on a previous occasion. I think there is a body of legal opinion that would accept that the standard of good faith is more subjective and that what is being sought - I imagine by Deputy Ó Cuív as well as myself - is a standard requiring more objectivity or reference to objectivity. For example, the 2009 Medical Council...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Michelle Mulherin: There is no doubt that a medical person must make the assessment of best practice. The fact that the Minister is not willing to refer to best medical practice in the Bill is not very comforting. I do not know what to think of the Minister's description of clinical research in this area. This whole conversation is not much comfort, as we are trying to make sure this is a restrictive regime,...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Michelle Mulherin: The knowledge and standards in professions are built over years of research and practice so it is not just a leap of faith. However, we have no road map because there is no medical evidence to support an idea that one in 500,000 should receive a termination based on the fact that she is suicidal and that this is the only way to avert that risk of suicide. I would be comforted if there was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Heads of Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2013: Discussion (2 Jul 2013)

Michelle Mulherin: I am somewhat inspired to respond to the discussion between Professor Kirby and Deputy Coonan because it is at the crux of, and impacts on, what we achieve and do not achieve. In a general sense we must answer what Deputy Coonan has said because this is what is on people's minds as a result of all the pressure on them relating to carbon taxes, changing systems and so on. We need to answer...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility (2 Jul 2013)

Michelle Mulherin: 439. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when she expects legislation that allows retained firefighters to receive full jobseeker's allowance or benefit payments to be enacted; her policy regarding assessing retained firefighters who apply for those payments now; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31533/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Animal Breeding Regulations (2 Jul 2013)

Michelle Mulherin: 489. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of illegal puppy farms believed to be operating here; the steps being taken to close them down; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31613/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Identification Scheme (2 Jul 2013)

Michelle Mulherin: 592. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the law regarding micro-chipping of horses only applies to horses born after 2009; his plans to apply it to horses born prior to 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31605/13]