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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Employment Appeals Tribunal: Public Petition No. P00027/12 (18 Jul 2013)

Peter Mathews: I am not just referring to cases of employment. I mean job loss, employment appeal or tribunal situations and other areas of annual appraisals. For instance, the young doctors whom we saw on television. It is absurd that they must work 24-hour non-stop stints. I would be worried entering an accident and emergency unit if the doctor treating me had worked 24 hours. Doctors are also under...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Employment Appeals Tribunal: Public Petition No. P00027/12 (18 Jul 2013)

Peter Mathews: The vote I left the meeting to attend was turfing me out of the committee. It was like turkeys voting for Christmas. Deputy Charles Flanagan: I, too, commend the courage and tenacity of Mr. O'Sullivan. We will only do him a service if we conclude the hearing, if not today, or on a future occasion by seeing what progress we can make within the frame of the seven points as raised by Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Employment Appeals Tribunal: Public Petition No. P00027/12 (18 Jul 2013)

Peter Mathews: I welcome everyone. As Senator O'Keeffe mentioned, there is one individual as well as the representatives of institutions and associations. This sets out the playing pitch atmosphere of much of what happens at employment appeal tribunals and elsewhere. Since our second last break, I have been present with a different status - I have been ejected from formal membership of the committee. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Employment Appeals Tribunal: Public Petition No. P00027/12 (18 Jul 2013)

Peter Mathews: It is four fifths or two thirds of the time one spends in secondary school. It is a long dent in the family, given one's preoccupation with an effort to achieve justice rather than law. I do not buy the claim about frivolous or nuisance appeals. For example, companies often boast about getting 1,000 applications for one job, none of which are frivolous or nuisances. People do not always...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Employment Appeals Tribunal: Public Petition No. P00027/12 (18 Jul 2013)

Peter Mathews: The same principles apply to employment situations. We have a world class workplace relations service. We would all vote for that, just as everyone is in favour of Santa Claus at Christmas. However, employers are usually better resourced unless they have entered into difficulty. Fairness and principles can still be achieved through just people listening to the facts of cases and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Employment Appeals Tribunal: Public Petition No. P00027/12 (18 Jul 2013)

Peter Mathews: A valuable and operable guarantee.

Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2013)

Peter Mathews: That will help to eliminate delays.

Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2013)

Peter Mathews: Thank you, a Leas-Chathaoirligh, for giving me the opportunity to commend the Minister and his officials on the introduction of this Bill. The energy shown in tackling this issue, which is very relevant to many family lives, is to be admired. Much work has gone into it, and I have enjoyed and learned a lot from the debate and the contributions. I support the introduction of this Bill and...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Peter Mathews: I agree with Deputy Shortall. Section 20(1) gives the opportunity to have more, fuller and clearer information than section 20(4).

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Peter Mathews: I support amendments Nos. 22, 25 and 27, in particular. I remind the Minister about the repugnant dilemma which the psychiatrists and obstetricians stated will arise where they will be obliged to deal with a woman who, in the context of section 9, is suicidal and who has been pregnant for fewer than 12 weeks, more than 12 weeks or up to 20 weeks. If the woman has been pregnant for fewer...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Peter Mathews: I was referring to section 9, not section 7.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Peter Mathews: I would like to thank Deputies Shortall, Tóibín, Creighton and Kirk for putting forward these meaningful amendments and seconding them. We must make an effort to see the meaningfulness of what are otherwise just remote sentences, statistics or hypotheses, because this issue will affect real lives. As Deputy Kirk said, the vista of late-term abortion and the death, destruction or...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Peter Mathews: I am not clear on what "as far as practicable" means in the various situations that could arise.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Peter Mathews: This is a situation involving a clinician, not a legal one.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Peter Mathews: It is not clear to me.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Peter Mathews: That is true, but I am a citizen.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Peter Mathews: I am not sure I understand this issue properly. If in the situation envisaged in section 9 there has been a joint agreement or certification by a psychiatrist and an obstetrician that there will be a medical procedure to terminate the pregnancy to avoid the risk of suicide as a last resort and the gestation of the baby is 11 or 12 weeks at that stage, it certainly does not have any chance of...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Peter Mathews: I can understand now the repugnant dilemma about which the psychiatrists and obstetricians were talking.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Peter Mathews: I support Deputy Tóibín's two amendments on the basis that they provide an objective yardstick or benchmark. Medical guidelines in practice have served the country well. To decouple from that at this stage would probably be unwise.

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

Peter Mathews: I remind the Ministers that the dilemma for the doctors, the psychiatrists and the obstetricians was the repugnant one posed by the fact that if a mother refuses treatments, the law says that a medical procedure is lawful. Jim Sheehan, who founded the Blackrock Clinic, the Hermitage and Galway Clinic, said, "Peter, you are to use the words 'kill the baby' ". We have heard an awful lot about...