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

Rónán Mullen: I move amendment No. 27:In page 15, between lines 5 and 6, to insert the following:"Provision of foetal ultrasound imaging and auscultation of foetal heart tone 22.(1) At least 24 hours before the carrying out of a termination of pregnancy in accordance with section 9, section 11or section 12the relevant medical practitioner or a qualified person assisting the relevant medical practitioner...

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

Rónán Mullen: This amendment would insert a new section 22 concerning the provision of foetal ultrasound imaging and auscultation of foetal heart tone and would provide that at least 24 hours before the carrying out of a termination of pregnancy in accordance with sections 9, 11 or 12, the relevant medical practitioner or a qualified person assisting the relevant medical practitioner would be required to...

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

Rónán Mullen: I move amendment No. 25:In page 14, after line 36, to insert the following:"(7) A medical practitioner who wilfully or recklessly contravenes subsection (1)of this section shall be guilty of an offence. (8) A person who is guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable—(a) on summary conviction to a class A fine or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months, or both,...

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

Rónán Mullen: I certainly did not mean to suggest that the guidelines in question are not based in statute. The Minister will recall that I went into detail on Committee Stage about the provisions of section 23 of the Non-Fatal Offences against the Person Act 1997 and the consent guidelines. My point has been that we are in a new situation here. We are in a situation where the direct and intentional...

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

Rónán Mullen: This is the consequential amendment. I intend to press amendment No. 26.

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

Rónán Mullen: I will press it.

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

Rónán Mullen: I move amendment No. 24:In page 14, between lines 22 and 23, to insert the following:“(d) any information required to be included in the notification under section 14(4);”. This amendment does not have to do with parental notification but with notifications. We are left with amendments that are consequential on an amendment that was pressed on Committee Stage but which has not...

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

Rónán Mullen: This is another amendment consequential on an amendment that has not been allowed. We did, however, discuss the issue at some considerable length on Committee Stage. Again, it refers to the grounds for abortion in section 9 and the use of the word "appropriate". As I pointed out on Committee Stage, the word is not to be found in the relevant Medical Council language. It is to be...

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

Rónán Mullen: I move amendment No. 23:In page 13, line 36, to delete “or section 12certification” and substitute “, section 12certification or section 22”.

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

Rónán Mullen: Amendment no. 23 is consequential, although it precedes amendment No. 26 which relates to parental notification. In moving amendment No. 23 I am addressing both issues. This amendment was discussed thoroughly on Committee Stage, although it was not put to a vote. Colleagues may recall that I said I would prefer not to press the amendment on Committee Stage because I wanted to adjust the...

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

Rónán Mullen: I move amendment No. 20:In page 11, line 27, to delete “appropriate” and substitute “necessary”.

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.