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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Meeting with Department of Health and HSE: Discussion on Health Issues (25 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: Not the whole of it, the Deputy could outline it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Meeting with Department of Health and HSE: Discussion on Health Issues (25 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: Deputy Ó Caoláin raised a number of issues around the dementia strategy and the carer's strategy and I will defer to the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, in regard to them. He mentioned rehabilitation and we are very fortunate to have Dr. Áine Carroll here from the National Rehabilitation Hospital, so she might address that. The Deputy also mentioned the meningitis...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Meeting with Department of Health and HSE: Discussion on Health Issues (25 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: Absolutely. I want a report on my desk by the end of September-beginning of October and I have commissioned an excellent individual, who is the head of a university which does not have a medical school, to do this. I want to introduce fairness and transparency and, above all, I want our doctors to stay here to look after us.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Meeting with Department of Health and HSE: Discussion on Health Issues (25 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: I thank the Chairman for that. Make no mistake, it is a battle. There are vested interests who are very happy with the status quo, on which I will make a broader statement. I do not accept the status quo in our health service and in our health training because it has not delivered for patients and it is not delivering for our doctors or nurses. We need to give them a fair and reasonable...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Meeting with Department of Health and HSE: Discussion on Health Issues (25 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: I thank Mary for her kindness and great service over the years and wish her well in her new position. I thank the Chairman and members of the committee for their invitation to meet them. I am accompanied by the Ministers of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Kathleen Lynch and Deputy Alex White, and we look forward to providing the committee with as much information as possible. To...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: It is 20 years old.

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (22 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: He is absolutely right that I cannot guarantee that, by the very lack of the Bill being in the Legislature we have no notification of the terminations that have taken place even though they are legal since 1992. We have no certification. We have no need for a second opinion. He also acknowledged that they do not take place. The Senator talked of torture but that implies the wilful...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (22 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: The legislation is all about respecting life, respecting the life of a woman and her unborn child and an attempt to save one rather than lose two.

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (22 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: His respect is somewhat focused.

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (22 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: Again, the Senator mentioned the scoundrels' charter seeking to denigrate the medical profession and carried on his theme from last week. I find his claims objectionable.

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (22 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: Senator Norris asked me some questions on the health services. As Senator Bacik has said, many people go privately but I can revert to him with more information. Senator Bradford mentioned the regulations but they were published last Thursday evening. Perhaps he meant the guidelines of the institutes that are still under consideration. They are the Institute of Obstetricians and...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (22 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: For all Senator Mullen's talk of respect he has interrupted me a number of times. I have not interrupted him once since I came to this House.

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (22 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: First, let us get the record straight. The idea that a foetus at 21 weeks could feel more pain than a newborn child is utterly unfounded. I know that is not part of this discussion, but several Senators have raised it. In 2005, a multidisciplinary systematic review of evidence in the Journal of the American Medical Association concluded that "evidence regarding the capacity for fetal pain...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: The first number of amendments in this grouping, amendments No. 16, 17, 25, 26, 35, 36 and 55 are around the issue of reasonable opinion. These amendments would have the effect of deleting the words "as far as practicable". In regard to the latter, the words "as far as practicable" are taken directly from Article 40.3.3o of the Constitution, which states: "The State acknowledges the right...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: I am astonished that we have spent so long on this section. It is utterly superfluous. Senator Cullinane has put his finger on it, concisely. What other way would a doctor form an opinion except using the clinical evidence in front of him or her? I am not accepting these amendments. They make no sense at all. They are utterly unnecessary. I do not think I need even read my note. I have...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: I will give a brief response. In regard to legal advice, apart from the fact there is no tradition of the Attorney General sharing his or her advice, even on discovery of documents the advisers of one's attorney are not open to discovery. If I tell the Senator what I say is the advice of the Attorney General, he can be sure it is. If it was not, she would be very quick, and right, to...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: Yes.

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: While we are clarifying the record, Senator Jim Walsh has, on a number of occasions, described particular procedures in the context of the termination of pregnancy. He challenged me this morning to make a statement that these procedures will not be used under this legislation. I have spoken to the master of Holles Street and I am assured, as of this afternoon, that the practices Senator...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: I am quite happy for the Senator to make his comment.

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: The amendments we are discussing - Nos. 13, 14, 24, 31 and 32 - would change the wording of sections 7, 8 and 9 of the Bill. The Bill as currently drafted reflects the policy requirement to implement the judgment in the case of A, B and C v. Ireland, which relates to accessible and effective procedures in relation to abortion only. The proposed change would not be desirable as it would...