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Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (10 Dec 2018)

Paul Gavan: I wish to speak to amendment No. 6. We have suggested deleting the word "serious". The Minister will know that witness after witness at the Oireachtas committee told us that we cannot grade risk. Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Rhona Mahony, among many others, stated as much on the record of the committee. My colleagues, including Deputy Louise O'Reilly and...

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (10 Dec 2018)

Paul Gavan: I hear what the Minister is saying but we are so far not convinced. He said that there is no specified definition for "serious", which is true, but the advice from everyone we heard at the Oireachtas committee was clear. Our view is simple: the Bill should be amended to better support medical practitioners' clinical judgment. I have sympathy for what Senator Ruane said. It is bizarre that...

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2018)

Paul Gavan: On amendments Nos. 11 and 20, there is a conflict between sections 9 and 11 which has not been explored in detail. As Senator Ruane noted, the amendment concerns the need for a certifying doctor to be the doctor who carries out the termination. The Minister realised the problem and amended this requirement in respect of early pregnancy when the Bill was before the Dáil. The...

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2018)

Paul Gavan: I move amendment No. 16:In page 9, line 10, to delete “avert” and substitute “mitigate”.

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Paul Gavan: That is putting it mildly.

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Paul Gavan: Well said.

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Paul Gavan: I welcome the Minister of State and, in particular, I welcome this Bill. It has been a long journey. Senator Devine put it very well in terms of the need to salute everyone and not just the people who have been involved in recent months. I salute Senator Noone and all of my colleagues on the committee. We had a much easier task than that faced by the people who stood up to be counted at...

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Paul Gavan: -----Devine and Norris, and others. I do not want to leave anyone out. I do not want to offend anyone. I remember the 1983 referendum because it was my first foray into politics. I am proud that my party, Sinn Féin, as a republican party, took the right stand then. We opposed that referendum. It was such a dark and awful time to be campaigning. As a teenager in the midlands, it was...

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Paul Gavan: Shameful stuff. With the greatest respect, because there are colleagues who take a different view on this, I would ask for this debate to be constructive on all sides. Surely we have earned that much. The Seanad can lead the way in this respect. It is real progress, and yet, and I mean this respectfully, a missed opportunity in some respect. I will cite one example in particular. The...

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Paul Gavan: It is just not good enough. While I welcome that the review has been brought forward, from five years to three, we have already waited 35 years. Why should we wait another three years when most of us in this Chamber know that the issue of decriminalisation can and should be dealt with now? I feel similarly about the three-day provision. I understand the politics around it. We are dealing...

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Paul Gavan: Well said.

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Paul Gavan: Well said.

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)

Paul Gavan: I, too, welcome the teachers from Grafton College. I also welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Mitchell O'Connor, to the House. What we witnessed this week at Grafton College serves to highlight how badly needed regulation in this sector is for workers. Grafton College represents another fiasco surrounding an English language school that has flagrantly disregarded existing workers rights...

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2018)

Paul Gavan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2018)

Paul Gavan: Well said.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2018)

Paul Gavan: I want to join with others in congratulating our colleague, Senator Ruane, on her well-deserved award for her excellent book yesterday. It is a significant achievement and it is absolutely right that it should be recognised in the Chamber today. I rise once again, more out of despair at this stage, to raise the issue of University Hospital Limerick. I have raised the appalling industrial...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2018)

Paul Gavan: Likewise.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2018)

Paul Gavan: Will Fine Gael be running?

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2018)

Paul Gavan: Is Fine Gael running candidates?

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2018)

Paul Gavan: That is a no then.