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

Rónán Mullen: This is one of those-----

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

Rónán Mullen: No.

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

Rónán Mullen: For the Minister to employ another verbal device is to engage again in the politics of casting odium rather than engaging in specificity and honest and truthful analysis of what the various sections present. Clearly, what we have seen in this legislation is the elevation of a certain ideology of choice over the welfare of unborn children and, at the same time, a medicalisation of claims for...

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

Rónán Mullen: I understand that.

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

Rónán Mullen: I acknowledge that, a Chathaoirligh. While I am very conscious of that, I am also conscious that this debate is to some degree an elegy for the unborn child. Ireland is changing for the foreseeable future in its definition of care for the most vulnerable human beings.

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

Rónán Mullen: I am concluding. A better day is coming, as I will say later, but it is not thanks to this Government that there is hope in the future for unborn children and their mothers who, as we know, often suffer after abortion. This amendment is consequential to an amendment that sought to make the Minister carry through on his promise that disability would be specifically excluded. He will be...

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

Rónán Mullen: I move amendment No. 13:In page 10, line 3, to delete “matter” and substitute “matters”.

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

Rónán Mullen: This amendment is effectively a consequential amendment that relates to section 12 abortions. As the Minister will recall, it was our desire to get the Minister to follow through on a pre-referendum commitment he gave that abortion would be specifically excluded where the certifying medical practitioner formed the reasonable view in good faith that it was being sought on the grounds of...

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

Rónán Mullen: This is one occasion when we do not object to somebody not speaking to the amendment.

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

Rónán Mullen: I am trying to say that there seems to be a doubt about whether abortion is generally an elective procedure. This amendment is about why taxpayers' money should not be made available in a blanket way for what are mostly elective procedures so it is entirely on point. We have just been through five years of gnashing of teeth about the right to choose and now that it is on the cusp of being...

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

Rónán Mullen: This is not the first time I have quoted The Irish Times in this debate. I quoted another article-----

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

Rónán Mullen: As I was about to say, I mentioned a Mr. Winters the other night who wrote another article in The Irish Times. I am merely quoting The Irish Times, not criticising the writer. On 10 July, which was after the referendum, Ms Bardon wrote that "it is understood Mr Harris is examining whether services can be provided under the Maternity and Infant Scheme". The article went on to state that...

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

Rónán Mullen: An extraordinary aspect of this is the proposal that the service be extended to women in Northern Ireland. I do not believe this proposal has fully filtered down to voters but, if it did, I would imagine that public opposition to the State paying for abortions would increase even more than the 60% opposition that exists at present.

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

Rónán Mullen: Those resident in Northern Ireland enjoy a better health service than we do in the Republic of Ireland or, at the very least, there is no evidence that the chaos that has wracked our health system for the past decade is in any way replicated north of the Border. In these circumstances, one can see how much this proposal could rankle with a great many people. I know that Deputies Michael...

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

Rónán Mullen: I understand and I do not wish to, but the point I am making is that we have many inadequacies and deficiencies in our health service and what is being done here with public money is an unjust procedure that ends life. That contrast is important for the understanding of the amendment. This is what people are saying. My office received an email from a woman in Wexford who asked why there...

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

Rónán Mullen: I will try to get through what I have to say on this amendment as quickly as possible.

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

Rónán Mullen: I second the amendment and, if I may at this stage, I will also second the consequential amendments Nos. 44 and 47, if that is the Cathaoirleach's wish.

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

Rónán Mullen: I have seconded the amendment. The amendment arises out of a discussion on Committee Stage but it was not the subject of an amendment on Committee Stage. I raised the issue of the funding of abortion from taxpayers' funds on Second Stage. It is one of the many aspects of the Bill which has very little support among the electorate, with 60% opposing this proposal according to recent...

Seanad: Centenary of 1918 General Election and Irish Women’s Right to Vote: Motion (13 Dec 2018)

Rónán Mullen: I commend everybody who has been involved in Vótáil 100. It has captured people's imagination. As somebody who often has guests and friends in Leinster House, it has been great to have the exhibition in the ante-chambers. It has been a real privilege to show people these wonderful artefacts and memories of a very important campaign at a very important in Irish history. Yeats...

Seanad: Centenary of 1918 General Election and Irish Women’s Right to Vote: Motion (13 Dec 2018)

Rónán Mullen: It is equally relevant to women and men.