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Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2018)

Paul Gavan: Fianna Fáil just endorsed the Government for another year.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2018)

Paul Gavan: Surely the Leader means the fourth floor of Leinster House 2000.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2018)

Paul Gavan: Precisely.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2018)

Paul Gavan: The Leader should get a new cliché for next year because that one is well and truly worn out.

Seanad: Appropriation Bill 2018: Second and Subsequent Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Paul Gavan: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. Sinn Féin supports this Bill. While it is essentially an exercise in legislative housekeeping, it provides an important focus on where the expenditure of the State is directed for the coming year. We tend to forget the huge sums of money involved when passing Estimates and the budget itself. I am pleased that in the past few years, there...

Seanad: Appropriation Bill 2018: Second and Subsequent Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Paul Gavan: On a point of order, I never suggested a deviation from the policy.

Seanad: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second and Subsequent Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Paul Gavan: This is a technical Bill. It is necessary; we recognise that. We support the Bill.

Seanad: Conflict in Yemen: Motion (19 Dec 2018)

Paul Gavan: I welcome the Minister of State. I commend Senator Higgins for her work on this issue. It is a significant achievement to get all-party consensus and I know the passing of this motion means a lot to her. Sinn Féin has signed up to the motion. We support the general message it sends, although it does not go far enough in its condemnation of the Saudi Arabian regime, in our opinion....

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (18 Dec 2018)

Paul Gavan: Today is International Migrants Day. It is important that we record the day. I ask that the Leader provide for a debate in the new year on the issue of migrants. The Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons has issued a statement recognising how much more there is to be done on the issue of migrants, which references the 3.5 million refugees from Syria and the over 2,000...

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

Paul Gavan: I acknowledge and thank the Minister. I thank colleagues from across the Chamber. I thank, in particular, my colleagues on the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment, on all sides, who worked so diligently. Above all, though, I want to thank the people from Together For Yes, the tremendous activists who, over many years, made this day possible. The inspiration in Limerick was...

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

Paul Gavan: I acknowledge the Fianna Fáil Party. I am not scoring points here. I just want to make the point that when we came together, we achieved something fantastic. That is the best way to make politics work. I am thinking of those people who have been campaigning for years and for decades. I was involved in that first campaign in 1983. I made reference in the Oireachtas committee to the...

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

Paul Gavan: I move amendment No. 43:In page 15, after line 38, to insert the following:(5) It shall be an offence to obstruct, or attempt to obstruct, a woman from accessing a termination of pregnancy under this Act, including by intimidating, threatening, misleading or deceiving her, or by impeding her access to any premises or location where terminations of pregnancy are performed under this Act.”.

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

Paul Gavan: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

Paul Gavan: I too will speak generally on the group of amendments and then refer specifically to amendments Nos. 36, 39 and 43. Before doing so, I want to point out that this will be only time that I will be speaking this evening. I want to say that Sinn Féin, as a team, is very proud to support this legislation. We have worked constructively at all stages. I am very proud of the fact that every...

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

Paul Gavan: We commit to that. I want to speak on the issue of criminalisation this evening, on which I also spoke on Committee Stage. It is an area about which I feel particularly passionate, as do my party colleagues. I was a member of the Oireachtas committee and we were very clear about the need for decriminalisation. While I commend the Minister on many of the things he has done in the Bill, he...

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

Paul Gavan: I move amendment No. 16:In page 10, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following:“(4) Subsection (3)shall not apply to a woman where it is deemed to constitute a significant barrier to access to a termination of pregnancy under this section, including because it may contribute to her exceeding the 12 week limit referred to in subsection (1).”.

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

Paul Gavan: Yes.

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

Paul Gavan: On a point of order, and with respect to the Minister, we cannot hear him properly. Could he pull his microphone a little closer?

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

Paul Gavan: I move amendment No. 7:In page 8, to delete lines 33 to 38 and substitute the following:“(4) The obstetrician referred to in subsection (2)(a)shall make such arrangements as he or she will deem necessary for the carrying out as soon as may be of the termination of pregnancy to which the certification referred to insubsection (3) relates.”.

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

Paul Gavan: I second the amendment.