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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Obstetric Medicine in the Netherlands: Professor Sjef Gevers and Professor Eva Pajkrt, University of Amsterdam (23 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: More terminations take place at less than 13 weeks in the UK than in the Netherlands.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Obstetric Medicine in the Netherlands: Professor Sjef Gevers and Professor Eva Pajkrt, University of Amsterdam (23 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: Yes, and in the UK, the rate is 92%.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Obstetric Medicine in the Netherlands: Professor Sjef Gevers and Professor Eva Pajkrt, University of Amsterdam (23 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: I was just curious. Briefly, on the criminalisation issue-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Obstetric Medicine in the Netherlands: Professor Sjef Gevers and Professor Eva Pajkrt, University of Amsterdam (23 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: Just in terms of the whole area of criminalisation, the need to decriminalise in Ireland has been a regular feature at this committee. Evidence has been given, across the board, from the medical profession that it has a real chilling effect on medical practice here. That does not seem to exist in the Netherlands. Is there any sanction? Basically, what the witnesses are saying is that it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Obstetric Medicine in the Netherlands: Professor Sjef Gevers and Professor Eva Pajkrt, University of Amsterdam (23 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: It is criminalising illegal abortions or back street abortions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Obstetric Medicine in the Netherlands: Professor Sjef Gevers and Professor Eva Pajkrt, University of Amsterdam (23 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: It provides a certain protection for women in that there is no sanction-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Obstetric Medicine in the Netherlands: Professor Sjef Gevers and Professor Eva Pajkrt, University of Amsterdam (23 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: That is important because I think the Dutch model, which is striking, is based on the idea of careful decision making, which is timely in light of what we discussed here yesterday. I was struck by the point that everybody's circumstances are different. The witnesses identified, which supports this as being a really good model, the importance of having non-specific language. How does one...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Obstetric Medicine in the Netherlands: Professor Sjef Gevers and Professor Eva Pajkrt, University of Amsterdam (23 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: An emergency is a very individual thing. What is an emergency for one person is not for another.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Obstetric Medicine in the Netherlands: Professor Sjef Gevers and Professor Eva Pajkrt, University of Amsterdam (23 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: The issue of consent is key here. Medical treatment is based on the consent of the patient or the person at the heart of it, a willingness to accept treatment or indeed, a right to refuse it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Obstetric Medicine in the Netherlands: Professor Sjef Gevers and Professor Eva Pajkrt, University of Amsterdam (23 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: In Ireland, our medical ethics are based on that, with the exception, which is specified in our health policy, of pregnant women in cases where it is perceived that there is a risk to the foetus. Midwives and other representatives of our health service have told us that this has created a climate of fear in terms of the provision of medical care and so on and has coerced the medical...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Obstetric Medicine in the Netherlands: Professor Sjef Gevers and Professor Eva Pajkrt, University of Amsterdam (23 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: If the witness were my doctor and I were pregnant and she wanted me to have a caesarean section but I wanted a natural delivery, could she, as my doctor, tell me she believed I might be jeopardising the baby's life and, therefore, compel me to have a caesarean section?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Obstetric Medicine in the Netherlands: Professor Sjef Gevers and Professor Eva Pajkrt, University of Amsterdam (23 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: That is very helpful. I thank Professor Pajkrt.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Obstetric Medicine in the Netherlands: Professor Sjef Gevers and Professor Eva Pajkrt, University of Amsterdam (23 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: These are children who do not have the freedom to travel. Anybody else in a similar crisis situation would travel.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Arms Trade (23 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: 15. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the date for the publication of the annual report on export licensing activity undertaken under the Control of Exports Act 2008 for the period 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016; and if publication will occur before the end of 2017. [49608/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Arms Trade (23 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: 30. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the increase in the value of licences for arms exports from Ireland, issued by her Department, from €23 million to €132 million between the last six months of 2016 and the first six months of 2017; her further views on the fact that this is the first time since six monthly reports began to be published that...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Arms Trade (23 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: 109. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 18 of 16 November 2017, if Ireland is in breach of the 2014 Arms Trade Treaty by continuing to permit the export of arms to Saudi Arabia in view of the fact that he has acknowledged that Saudi Arabia is committing gross violations of human rights in Yemen. [49753/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Policing Authority Administration (23 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: 115. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is satisfied that the Policing Authority has the necessary staffing resources and expertise in place to fully carry out its role, in view of the fact that the authority spent €139,920 on an outside agency to conduct a report (details supplied) regarding mandatory intoxicant testing and the incorrect issuing of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Wards of Court (23 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: 118. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a system exists whereby a personal and dedicated advocate for the welfare and needs of a ward of court whose committee is the general solicitor may be appointed in view of the fact that such wards are intensely vulnerable and their needs and welfare may not be adequately provided for in the absence of a dedicated advocate;...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Waterways Ireland Remit (23 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: 135. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the flooding of Binn Bridge by Waterways Ireland in order to prevent homeless persons from taking shelter under same; if she is satisfied that this is a humane and appropriate action by Waterways Ireland in view of the homelessness crisis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49674/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: International Context: Dr. Patricia Lohr, British Pregnancy Advisory Service (22 Nov 2017)

Clare Daly: I will have to be good. I thank Dr. Lohr for coming in. It is an interesting point as Senator Mullen made the point about Dr. Lohr's services being the subject of a critical review while in the Dáil Chamber they are discussing Portlaoise hospital. It is the subject of scathing reports arising from the death of babies. The solution was not to shut the maternity service but to improve...