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- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Peter Mathews: I did not say it. The author said it.
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Peter Mathews: To examine the risk of suicide.
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Peter Mathews: It is supposed to be protective, not restrictive.
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Peter Mathews: I told you at the outset that we have asked the medics to do everything.
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Peter Mathews: Medicine has been doing that in the interim 21 years.
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Peter Mathews: We have wonderful standards. They are the best. Doctors, nurses, midwives and medical attendants do their very best. Let us not make them overly neurotic about law and what lawyers would like them to do in lawyers' language instead of caring for people and taking necessary, courageous risks. As I said to the Fine Gael parliamentary party meeting, my father would not have wanted clarity...
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Peter Mathews: Whatever society needs to do to prevent it.
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Peter Mathews: I know orphans who were the product of a conception through rape. They certainly do not want to think that their lives might have been snuffed out. I know a couple of them. It is shocking that women have had the experience and consequential emotional effects travelling through their lives and to their husbands, partners and children. We cannot repeat this enough. We must understand it....
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Peter Mathews: This touches on all sections and all the amendments without exception. We must get this right. We are not obliged to legislate for the Constitution. That was well put. Deputy Timmins rightly said that we would be all fools to ignore the reality of what psychiatrists tell us and that they said they are being put into a naturally repugnant dilemma whereby if a woman is distressed, and my...
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Peter Mathews: I am saying that in a short space of time legislation moves on and socially countries can lose their path. Law gets meddled with and interfered with.
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Peter Mathews: Some 30% of pregnancies in America and England end in abortion. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae referred to it as 1.2 million babies every year in America or 3,500 a day. This amounts to a 9/11 every day but we do not hear from them because they are little. They do not have relatives except the parents, who allow it to happen. People might think this is extreme but it is extreme. Deputy Kirk...
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Peter Mathews: Can I speak please? The limited professional experience was given as best he could to judges who knew they were getting only limited professional opinion but it was a crisis and they had to move and think fast. The judges would have liked to have heard more and would have loved to hear what we now have the benefit of but they did not have it. The Minister of State, Deputy Creighton, said...
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Peter Mathews: This is an excerpt from the chapter about frames and reality in Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel prize-winning behavioural psychologist, economist and philosopher who has written perhaps this year's bestselling book. His reputation in the area is world class and is a hallmark. He and his colleague, Amos, carried out an experiment with colleagues at Harvard Medical School....
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Peter Mathews: It is some ten and a half hours since I made a short contribution on these proposals. I preface my comments tonight by reminding everyone - in which I include myself - that life is an extraordinary gift and that mothers and babies are extraordinarily valuable human beings. The Constitution recognises that in Article 40.3.3°. The problem, if it is a problem, is to interpret that...
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Peter Mathews: I do understand. The Minister of State was not at all the committee hearings and did not hear what was said. None of the Cabinet Ministers was at those hearings. That is a very big gap and I am ashamed of it.
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Peter Mathews: We heard about the law. We are dealing with amendments to section 9.
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Peter Mathews: Hear, hear.
- Mortgage Arrears Proposals: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (10 Jul 2013)
Peter Mathews: The Minister of State should stick to the motion.
- Mortgage Arrears Proposals: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (10 Jul 2013)
Peter Mathews: That is agreed.
- Mortgage Arrears Proposals: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (10 Jul 2013)
Peter Mathews: Thank you. It is important for us all to remember the human side of what is behind these mortgages.