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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise Controls (29 Jan 2013)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown in tabular form of the total number of offensive weapons seized by Customs each year since and including 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4160/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise Controls (29 Jan 2013)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the funding provided to curb the illegal importation of offensive weapons, since and including 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4161/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise Controls (29 Jan 2013)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will to provide in tabular format, the total sum saved to the Exchequer each year since and including 2005 due to successful tobacco seizures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4151/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (29 Jan 2013)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form the number of pipe bombs discovered by an Garda Siochána each and every year since 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4162/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (29 Jan 2013)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular format, the amount spent on smoking cessation programmes each year since and including 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4148/13]

Education (Welfare) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Jan 2013)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: Smoking kills, drugs kill and bullying kills. Cat Cora is right. She said, "Bullying is killing our kids. Being different is killing our kids and the kids who are bullying are dying inside. We have to save our kids whether they are bullied or they are bullying. They are all in pain". To the extent that this Bill furthers the debate on bullying, I welcome the Deputy's genuine work....

Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (16 Jan 2013)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I listened carefully to what Deputy Finian McGrath had to say and while his arguments are highly amusing, they are false. He has dismissed World Health Organization reports and everything else. He has run out through the door of the Chamber and did not listen my criticism. I fundamentally disagree with what he said and it would wrong of us to let that erroneous message be sent. He stated...

Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (16 Jan 2013)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: There are also costs associated with smoking. In 2008 it was claimed that smoking was responsible for 36,000 hospital admissions, at a staggering cost of €280 million. People have to take time off work; they suffer from lung disease, strokes and cancers, all of which impacts on the cost of smoking. Let us be clear about this: as taxpayers, we have to foot the bill and cough up...

Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (16 Jan 2013)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: "Bully" is not a word that should be used.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I asked whether the delegations trust their doctors and psychiatrists but not their nurses. I also asked about their views with Dr. Simon Mills's views on suicidology.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I thank the witnesses. Yesterday, Dr. Simon Mills put forward draft proposals, in the form of heads of a Bill. I invite the witnesses to comment on them because he stated before the joint committee that he thought the draft would stand up robustly in law. I also am very concerned as I heard someone state there was no need for legislation, the position was crystal clear, the witness...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: No.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: My understanding was that the Medical Council asked for no change in respect of emergency cases and that the master of Holles Street hospital-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: ----- asked for no change in cases of emergency. Consequently, they do not need two obstetricians.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. One of them said that the law has no values, that it is a scaffolding. Given what the masters of the hospitals said yesterday, is it right that we would repeal the 1861 law? Could we have a specific response that advises legislators that if we are going to put legislation in place, what should we put in that legislation to curb any floodgates?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: In the Irish Council for Civil Liberties submission, paragraph 8, refers to "pregnancies involving a defined set of fatal foetal abnormalities". I ask Dr. Brady to clarify what the council means by a defined set of fatal foetal abnormalities.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (9 Jan 2013)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I have a question for Dr. Mills. I have studied his proposed draft Bill. I ask him to clarify for this committee and also for the audience who are listening if he can guarantee that the floodgates will not be opened by his proposed Bill. Will it allow the floodgates to open? Will it allow women to get abortions by giving the excuse that they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: With regard to the floodgates phenomenon, I am hearing much criticism about the psychiatry profession. It is being said that one stop shops will be set up where two psychiatrists will come into a town, sign all these documents and then the floodgates will be open. I ask the three witnesses, as professional psychiatrists, to comment on that criticism that is being made.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I am having difficulty in understanding the presentation by the Medical Council. The council witnesses said explicitly this morning that special procedures do not need to be developed for emergency situations. Do the witnesses present agree with the Medical Council? We are trying to gather information and work on it. The doctors say they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)

Mary Mitchell O'Connor: I refer the witness to 6.2 on page 3. It states that in regard to the question of the test to be applied, the view of the Medical Council is that the diagnosis should be evidence based and made expeditiously or within a defined time limit. Can I ask what evidence-based diagnosis is being talked about in that paragraph? Deputy Regina Doherty asked in a different way about the sort of risk...