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Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

Máire Devine: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

Máire Devine: I move amendment No. 4:In page 8, line 25, to delete “avert” and substitute “mitigate”.

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

Máire Devine: Yes.

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

Máire Devine: My amendment suggests "mitigate" instead of "avert". It is about interpretation and states that nothing is absolute. Unnecessary stuff happens. I seek to eliminate the wrong interpretation of what happens in the medical context. Mitigating means reduction, in order to protect the health and safety of the mother if a termination of pregnancy occurs. It applies where pregnancy...

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

Máire Devine: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

Máire Devine: We are all anxious to conclude.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Máire Devine: Fuel poverty affects 28% of households. There is an attempt to address that with insulation and other sustainable measures in housing. Most people cannot afford that and cannot match grants. Those supports are too difficult for people to access. That is, however, one of the ways we can get community involvement and get communities talking to one another. The need to insulate is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Máire Devine: The co-op system is a great model which we should expand across Europe. The Irish Co-operative Organisation Society identified the need for additional support to knowledge share. Will the representatives expand on that? Would it be an advisory type programme or a form of sectoral training? Are they aware of a similar model in another country that could highlight best practice? I do not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Máire Devine: I do not think that was for Mr. Healy. It was for the Irish Cooperative Organisation Society, ICOS, and for the Irish Natura and Hill Farmers Association.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Máire Devine: I understand that, but I think everybody has to play his or her part and what we need to do with climate change is urgent.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Máire Devine: It is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Dec 2018)

Máire Devine: Our emissions are still increasing.

Seanad: Children's Digital Protection Bill 2018: Second Stage (12 Dec 2018)

Máire Devine: I wonder whether any of us remembers Bebo. I remember asking when my children were growing up what it was all about and what was happening. It was a very innocent time. Providers eventually looked around and said they could make progress on the concept and make a profit from it. This is achieved by our allowing our children to be subjected to extremely unacceptable images and whatever...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (11 Dec 2018)

Máire Devine: I second the recommendation.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (11 Dec 2018)

Máire Devine: I second the recommendation.

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2018)

Máire Devine: These are prudent amendments to the proposed requirement in section 12(3) that three days must elapse between the date of certification and the provision of abortion care. Sinn Féin strongly holds that there should be no possibility of the waiting period acting as an arbitrary barrier to care. There should be nothing in the Bill causing a doctor to think about anything except a...

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2018)

Máire Devine: I did not want to speak but given my role as nurse and the role of Senator Reilly, we are very well aware that we are catered for in terms of conscientious objection. It is there and is respected. The 24-7 helpline will contain a list of GPs to whom women can go because they will be willing to help them. Will it be the same for pharmacists? I remember the hullabaloo when contraception was...

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2018)

Máire Devine: I move amendment No. 61:In page 15, line 36, to delete “It” and substitute “Save in the case where a person is acting with explicit instruction from the pregnant woman, it”.

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2018)

Máire Devine: I move amendment No. 62:In page 15, after line 38, to insert the following:“(5) It shall be an offence to obstruct, or attempt to obstruct, a woman from accessing a termination of pregnancy under this Act, including by intimidating, threatening, misleading or deceiving her, or by impeding her access to any premises or location where terminations of pregnancy are performed under this...

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2018)

Máire Devine: I support amendments Nos. 9, 16 and 39. The reasons have been outlined before and are obvious. Amendment No. 9 seeks to change the word "avert" to "mitigate" simply because there will be scenarios where pregnancy is a significant contributory factor to the risk to the health or life of the woman and its termination may significantly mitigate but not entirely avert the risk. Therefore, the...