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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Could it be the case that other personnel or legal people have met the Department?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Has An Garda Síochána engaged with anybody else on this legislation? No. What about in terms of the Office of the Attorney General?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Having clearly enforceable legislation is a fairly fundamental aspect of any legislation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Did the superintendent request an engagement or was it the Department?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Reference has been made to the parameters of the safe access zones and signage. Is that really a feasible proposal given the extent of the facilities that are intended to be used? There are hundreds at the moment. We are still very conscious of the fact that only about half of the maternity hospitals, for example, provide services but we have been told that they will albeit in the future...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: That is why I have asked whether it is feasible to have signage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: The proposal is that it is 100 m from the curtilage of a hospital, if that is the distance that is decided, and it seems to be the likely one. This would seem to be a very extensive area.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: That is why I am saying it is difficult to imagine how signage could work in the same sentence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Getting back to that point Ms Mulkerrins made about a register, it was suggested that consideration might be given to whether there should be a register of service providers so that the number of safe access zones could be reduced and-or more resources made available for the policing of these zones. A few moments ago Deputy Commissioner McMahon made the comment that most services would be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I appreciate the challenges the deputy commissioner has identified, but it is just the solutions I am wondering about. Moving on to the question of the issuing of a warning, which was raised by Deputy Cullinane, is it open to An Garda to record a warning on the PULSE system?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: In a scenario where a person is protesting in Cork, the person receives a warning from the local gardaí there, and a couple of weeks later the person is protesting in Dublin, how would a member of An Garda in Dublin be aware a warning had been given in Cork?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: It is proposed in this legislation that, in effect, for an offence to be committed under head 4(7) of the proposed legislation, an individual acting in breach of the provisions of the proposed legislation must have been previously issued with a warning pursuant to head 4(5). That is a requirement of the proposed legislation, that for an offence to be committed, the person must have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: For a member of An Garda to prosecute a subsequent breach of a zone, would that member not need to know there had been a previous warning?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Okay, but in the context of a situation where there are hundreds of facilities where services are being provided, it is not feasible in the case of each and every GP surgery that you would have had to have had a warning at surgery A previously if you subsequently protest at surgery A, because protesters will then just move around and it becomes completely unworkable.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Ms Mulkerrins is raising fundamental questions-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: ------about the working of the legislation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Sorry to interrupt, but this is my final question. There seems to be some hesitancy on the part of An Garda Síochána to use that section of the public order Act where protests are occurring. There are protests. We know there have been difficulties in addressing the protests that take place fairly regularly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I suggest that many women accessing termination services are not very satisfied with the level of policing at the moment, which is the reason there has been such a demand for the safe access zones. It may be a combination of the existing law and the demarcation of zones. Dr. McNamara raises fundamental questions and I thank him for doing that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Given we are all agreed on the objective of preventing intimidation and harassment of people accessing health services, has An Garda a solution to that problem?

Home Care: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I welcome the motion by Sinn Féin, which the Social Democrats will support. It is a timely debate following the publication of the report by the strategic workforce advisory group last month. I also welcome the strong endorsement by the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, of all 16 of the group's recommendations. I assure the Minister of State that she will have the full support of the...