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Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: I am withdrawing it.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: In a way, Deputy Danny Healy-Rae has made the case I was going to put forward. What constitutes "extraordinary measures"? What is extraordinary today might be very ordinary tomorrow and what is extraordinary in Crumlin hospital might be very ordinary in Tralee hospital. I acknowledge that the Minister has tried to define it. The legislation contains definitions of words and phrases such...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: I move amendment No. 40: In page 9, lines 7 and 8, to delete “without extraordinary life-sustaining measures”. Unless what Deputy O'Connell has just said is extraordinary, I will also withdraw my amendment. I thought what we meant when we say we withdraw amendments is that we reserve the right to submit them on Report Stage. Do we have to keep saying it?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: Yes, so I can submit it on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: It is almost 6.50 p.m.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: I move amendment No. 41In page 9, line 10, to delete “A termination of pregnancy” and substitute “An abortion”.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: Does it involve consultants?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: I wish to speak briefly on the issue of "serious harm". The phrase is used twice as it is used again at line 35 on page 9. We also believe it should be deleted and have tabled an amendment to that effect. The matter is subjective in that one doctor might consider it to be serious harm to one's health if one's fallopian tube does not work again and another might consider that to be a...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: The more we discuss this and the more I hear from the Minister, the more I am convinced that these two words "serious risk" are very subjective and dangerous to leave in the Bill. We must remove them.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: I am sorry, it is tiredness. The words are "serious harm". Thinking of myself, who decides for me whether it is serious harm to my health? We would never say to a bloke that his health is not as important to him as his life. It is verging on sexism to say that a woman's holistic health, mental and physical, is not very important and that somebody who examines her has to decide that there...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: That is not the question. The question is what the Minister is defining.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: The doctor might well say there are other ways of doing it.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: The Chairman may be getting tired now too.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: I twitched.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: My grouping is not represented on the health committee. Would it be possible for one of our members to attend the meeting?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Contractors (6 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: 304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process under which a company (details supplied) received contracts to build schools from his Department; the procurement process used; the criteria for awarding the contracts; the officials within his Department that oversaw the process; if his Department was involved in the decision to award the contracts; if not, if the process was...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (6 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: 315. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the site visits to building sites for school projects conducted by his Department or by other agents on his behalf, specifically all visits to sites operated by a company (details supplied) since 2008; and the reports and or observations submitted as a result of these visits. [45129/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Bord na Móna (6 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: 837. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the source and amount of biomass that Bord na Móna will import to co-fire the affected power stations that use peat production; the plans Bord na Móna has to source biomass in the period ahead to replace its ceased peat production; and the studies carried out on the projected CO2 emissions of this sourced...

Tuam Mother and Baby Home: Statements (25 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: Unfortunately, I missed the Minister's opening statement so I might ask questions that have already been answered. I congratulate her on how she has dealt with this. It is probably one of the best outcomes we could have hoped for. As well as congratulations being due to the Minister, huge congratulations are owed to Catherine Corless. There is no doubt that she has become a national hero...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Semi-State Pensions: Discussion (25 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: Before the witnesses respond, I have some brief questions. I am a new member but when I started on the committee I knew there was a pensions time bomb in Irish Life. Interestingly, Irish Life deals with defined benefit pension schemes for hundreds of other companies but its employees' defined benefit pension scheme was being taken from them. The one comment we could have made to them was...