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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service Restructuring: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: Excuse me.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Seaweed Harvesting Licences (23 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: 225. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the licensing of mechanical harvesting of seaweed and kelp in the Bantry Bay area; and the policy in respect of mechanical harvesting of these resources by private companies. [49739/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: I understand that people believe there may be a misunderstanding by groups out there after the vote was taken, but I find it difficult to accept. I am not rejecting it entirely, but I find it difficult to accept. If we are going to speak in that vein and ask for groups to come back, we need to spell out what groups we are talking about. We need to name them rather than just to have a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (22 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: I just want to make a remark to everyone. The world is looking on and three or four men are having arguments here while women and their health need to be debated. We are delaying the process. Women out there are waiting for a result to do with their reproductive health. What are we like?

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

Bríd Smith: I thank Dr. Lohr for her attendance and for her very interesting presentation. I would like to tease out with her the issue of criminality of abortion as it applies in this State and, as mentioned by Dr. Lohr in her presentation, to Northern Ireland. Three women in Northern Ireland already have been charged with attaining the abortion pill. Dr. Lohr mentioned that there has been a...

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

Bríd Smith: Will Dr. Lohr comment on decriminalisation in Canada and Australia?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Ms Liz McDermott, One Day More (22 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: I thank Ms McDermott for her evidence, and I would like to thank the parents in the seven moving case histories that were presented to us. I would like to move straight from the personal onto wider questions about Ms McDermott's charity. One Day More is a charity properly registered with the Charities Regulator, is it not? Does the group engage in fundraising?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Ms Liz McDermott, One Day More (22 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: I am astounded that in her testimony Ms McDermott spoke about some of the parents being told that their pregnancy was futile, that the foetus was like the Michelin man, or that in the case of a baby who had Down's syndrome, the parents were constantly contacted after each hospital appointment, to try to make them change their mind and have an abortion. Has Ms McDermott never dealt with a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Ms Liz McDermott, One Day More (22 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: I am sorry for interrupting the witness, but they are private clinics. When I say free, safe and legal-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Ms Liz McDermott, One Day More (22 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: Ms McDermott is missing my point. When I say free, safe and legal, I mean provided for, the way it is under the NHS.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Ms Liz McDermott, One Day More (22 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: They are fully funding it. The problem is that they use private operators, but that is not my point. What I am actually asking Ms McDermott is this. She complains about the abortion industry because it is for-profit. Would the logic of that complaint not mean that it should not be for-profit, that abortion should be provided as a service?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Ms Liz McDermott, One Day More (22 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: Ms McDermott is making my point for me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Ms Liz McDermott, One Day More (22 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: No - to the woman who is looking for the abortion, it is free. My-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Ms Liz McDermott, One Day More (22 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: Absolutely. But so-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Ms Liz McDermott, One Day More (22 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: That does not make sense because the consultant who saw Ms McDermott when she was pregnant would also be paid a hefty salary.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Ms Liz McDermott, One Day More (22 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: And paid by Ms McDermott as well. And he treated her so badly he should be complained about to the medical organisations that look after these things. My point is, given that One Day More is set up with charitable status, I assume it is registered with the Charities Regulator.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Ms Liz McDermott, One Day More (22 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: I absolutely get that but what-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Ms Liz McDermott, One Day More (22 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: I absolutely get that but I just really would like Ms McDermott to address the question. Would it not be a big help to the women she comes across if consultants who behave in this manner were reported for doing so? Would that not be a big help?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: One Day More (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: Five years after it was set up?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: One Day More (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: I am just wondering if the process takes five years. That is all.