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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Secondly, I feel very sorry for-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I feel sympathy for witnesses who are held up because important issues arise, but I also object to be being jollied on on the basis that witnesses are waiting outside. When are these issues going to be ventilated? There has been a pattern at this committee of inviting guests in and then going on to make decisions, including one very big decision, to propose that the eighth amendment not be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I have to ask the question-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Is this committee willing to consider, in public session, the issues arising? For example, it occurs in both the Seanad and the Dáil that issues are brought forward on the Order of Business which may, if they are important enough, have the impact of changing that day's Order of Business.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: What is happening here is that you are jollying on speakers as though the issues being raised are mere trivialities, which they are not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: You are jollying on speakers. You are trying to close down discussion, Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Chair, I have seconded Deputy McGrath's proposal. I would be grateful if you would now deal with that matter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: It is fine for you to give your opinion on a point of order, Chair-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: -----but as I understand it, it is not a dictatorship here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: On a point of order, Chair, if your concern has to do with delaying witnesses, I would have no problem with a vote being taken after we have heard from the witnesses. It is not our desire to be discourteous to anybody.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: It is certainly my desire to highlight major flaws-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: -----in the way this committee is doing its work.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: International Legal and Services Context: Dr. Gilda Sedgh, Guttmacher Institute and Ms Leah Hoctor, Center for Reproductive Rights (8 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: With the Chairman's permission, I will ask one short question, to which I hope to receive a short answer, and use the rest of my time later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: International Legal and Services Context: Dr. Gilda Sedgh, Guttmacher Institute and Ms Leah Hoctor, Center for Reproductive Rights (8 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Ms Hoctor is probably aware that advocacy groups were not supposed to appear before the committee. While I do not know if she was aware of that, I will draw attention to an email from the Center for Reproductive Rights dated 28 September which reached my inbox-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: International Legal and Services Context: Dr. Gilda Sedgh, Guttmacher Institute and Ms Leah Hoctor, Center for Reproductive Rights (8 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I appreciate that. The joys of modern technology; let me see if we can have a quick recovery. The advertisement reads: Harsh abortion laws put women at risk and deny them their fundamental rights. We are fighting back [and then there are maps of five countries, Ireland, Kenya, India, El Salvador and Nepal and around the world]. We will not stop until every woman has access to safe and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: International Legal and Services Context: Dr. Gilda Sedgh, Guttmacher Institute and Ms Leah Hoctor, Center for Reproductive Rights (8 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I asked Ms Hoctor if she was surprised to receive an invitation from the Oireachtas?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: International Legal and Services Context: Dr. Gilda Sedgh, Guttmacher Institute and Ms Leah Hoctor, Center for Reproductive Rights (8 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Not withstanding the prohibition on advocacy groups.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: International Legal and Services Context: Dr. Gilda Sedgh, Guttmacher Institute and Ms Leah Hoctor, Center for Reproductive Rights (8 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Thank you Chairman. I thought we had done with the Chairman cutting in on people's questioning. That concludes my question and I thank the witness for her reply.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Medical Law Review: Dr. Ruth Fletcher, Queen Mary University London (8 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I will only take about half of that if that is okay. Is infanticide still criminalised in Britain and Northern Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Medical Law Review: Dr. Ruth Fletcher, Queen Mary University London (8 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Does Dr. Fletcher have a different view on whether infanticide should remain a criminal offence? It is clearly her view that abortion ought to be decriminalised. Does she take the same view of infanticide?