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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (14 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: 562. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the cardiomyopathy virus revealed by him in reply to Parliamentary Question No. 49 of 8 November 2017 is not now nor will become transmissible to human beings. [53699/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (14 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: 643. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when Ireland will ratify the second optional protocol of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child; and the legal reason Ireland has not done so. [53518/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medical Services (14 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: 770. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if director medical branch instruction number 52 amendment number 1 of 24 August 2016 is still relied upon by the Defence Forces for vaccinations and other preparations for overseas deployments. [53529/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Completion of the Examination of the Report and Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly and Preparation of a Draft Report in accordance with the Terms of Reference of the Joint Committee (13 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: I do not think there is a contradiction in that repeal simpliciteris not an alternative to repeal and replace with alternative legislation. We know from testimony that legislation is being prepared and that, in order for it to be facilitated, Article 40.3.3° has to be removed from the Constitution. I echo the points made. We need to make the position clear and give some space for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Completion of the Examination of the Report and Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly and Preparation of a Draft Report in accordance with the Terms of Reference of the Joint Committee (13 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: That the termination of a pregnancy would be lawful, obviously, in circumstances where there is a real and substantial physical risk to the life of the woman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Completion of the Examination of the Report and Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly and Preparation of a Draft Report in accordance with the Terms of Reference of the Joint Committee (13 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: We are voting on the recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly also, so they are not mutually exclusive. We will be voting on the two.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Completion of the Examination of the Report and Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly and Preparation of a Draft Report in accordance with the Terms of Reference of the Joint Committee (13 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: We are in danger of straying and staying here until Christmas, the way we are going. I have just a couple of points. People are confused about why we are here. We are not drafting legislation; we are issuing guidance to the Oireachtas to draft legislation. The idea that some people raised, namely, that our vote on this would be misinterpreted as a statement that there should be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Completion of the Examination of the Report and Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly and Preparation of a Draft Report in accordance with the Terms of Reference of the Joint Committee (13 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: I think it is important to state that we are approaching this slightly differently than the Citizens' Assembly and that is absolutely fine. It voted on the criteria and it then looked at gestational limits. We have already agreed to provide access to terminations without restriction as to reason up to 12 weeks, and that is going to cater for the overwhelming majority of Irish women who need...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Completion of the Examination of the Report and Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly and Preparation of a Draft Report in accordance with the Terms of Reference of the Joint Committee (13 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: Does the next motion take it up to 22 weeks?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Completion of the Examination of the Report and Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly and Preparation of a Draft Report in accordance with the Terms of Reference of the Joint Committee (13 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: We have already dealt with the ones up to 12 weeks on the basis that the abortion pill is mentioned in the report and also the GP-led process, which was to address the issue of the HSE, costs and all of that. Once such matters are reflected in the reports then the 12 weeks provision can go and we will just have the 22 week provision.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Completion of the Examination of the Report and Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly and Preparation of a Draft Report in accordance with the Terms of Reference of the Joint Committee (13 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Completion of the Examination of the Report and Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly and Preparation of a Draft Report in accordance with the Terms of Reference of the Joint Committee (13 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: The key thing here is to give clarity to the Government and the Oireachtas in drafting the legislation about the opinion. The problem is we are comparing apples and oranges. We have done it a different method. Why do we not do "no restrictions as to reasons up to 12 weeks" or whatever the actual vote was - 22 weeks, the way the Citizens' Assembly actually did it on the gestational periods...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Completion of the Examination of the Report and Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly and Preparation of a Draft Report in accordance with the Terms of Reference of the Joint Committee (13 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: We have already voted on what the Citizens' Assembly voted on. We voted on no restriction as to reasons up to 12 weeks. That was passed. We voted on up to 22 weeks and that was defeated. The key thing for us now is that the Oireachtas has clarity on what we are saying. The decision has been very clear and the report needs to be that this committee is strongly in support of access to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Completion of the Examination of the Report and Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly and Preparation of a Draft Report in accordance with the Terms of Reference of the Joint Committee (13 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: This should not be a big deal. I do not think it is the particular wording. At every single meeting that we have had here, the issue of decriminalisation came up. Virtually every speaker, with maybe a few exceptions, so practically everyone who had varying views on abortion, believe that women and their doctors should not be criminalised for it. Obviously, the Oireachtas when it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Completion of the Examination of the Report and Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly and Preparation of a Draft Report in accordance with the Terms of Reference of the Joint Committee (13 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: I think that is what everybody is effectively seeking to do. The Oireachtas is going to define the circumstances. What we want is nobody penalised-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Completion of the Examination of the Report and Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly and Preparation of a Draft Report in accordance with the Terms of Reference of the Joint Committee (13 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: We can draft the wording in the report. We are not going to do it here now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Completion of the Examination of the Report and Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly and Preparation of a Draft Report in accordance with the Terms of Reference of the Joint Committee (13 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: Yes. We all know what we are trying to get at.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Completion of the Examination of the Report and Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly and Preparation of a Draft Report in accordance with the Terms of Reference of the Joint Committee (13 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: That covers that they are licensed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Completion of the Examination of the Report and Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly and Preparation of a Draft Report in accordance with the Terms of Reference of the Joint Committee (13 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: We agreed last week that there would be no speeches and that we would move to voting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Completion of the Examination of the Report and Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly and Preparation of a Draft Report in accordance with the Terms of Reference of the Joint Committee (13 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: The amendments follow on from the public sessions and information that is in the public domain. We need to vote now.