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Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: The Supreme Court interprets the Constitution; we make laws. When the court makes a clear and definitive statement as to the basic law, as legislators, we must listen. The test in Attorney General v. X is not obiter dictum, as others have said. It is one of the clearest statements of the basic law the court has given. It has been understood as such since the judgment was delivered in 1992...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: When the Statute Book is silent on matters of life and death, great mischief can occur. We remedy that through this Bill. Twice the Supreme Court confirmed that the X case decision is the state of our law in the baby O case in 2002 and in Roche v. Roche in 2010. If the court wanted to alter or vary the decision in any way, it could have done so but it did not. The Minister for Justice and...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: Lock them up.

Topical Issue Debate: Lourdes Hospital Redress Scheme Extension (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: The Lourdes Hospital redress scheme was established following the findings and recommendations contained in the report on peripartum hysterectomy at the hospital, The Lourdes Hospital Inquiry, published in 2006. The inquiry was conducted by Ms Justice Maureen Harding Clark.The inquiry did not extend to a wider examination of Dr. Michael Neary's general practice or of the clinical practice of...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: What has this got to do with the amendments?

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: To which amendment is the Deputy referring?

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: The definition of the unborn is from the Attorney General, and it is for the purposes of this Act alone. Deputies Boyd Barrett and Daly raised that issue. I accept that everybody has a conscience and strongly held views and beliefs, but I believe the Bill gives clarity to women on their legal entitlements and how to access them, and to doctors and nurses who must deliver that service. I...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: I thank the vast majority of speakers for the tone they have adopted but I regret that of Deputy Boyd Barrett, and also the fact that he would deliberately seek to omit the right to life of the unborn, which is implicit in this Bill on the protection of the life in pregnancy of both mother and unborn child. As the last speaker noted, what was lacking in legislation would not have been what...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: The discretionary medical card emanates from discretion that was conferred on the CEOs of health boards. It was at the CEO's discretion, not a doctor's discretion. The cards were given out for all sorts of reasons. In some regions, anybody who had cancer would get a card. As we all know, in the past the word "cancer" struck terror into people's hearts and the prognosis was very poor, but...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: I doubt that.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: A new system is in place. I have no issue with Deputy Naughten's call for a clear and transparent description of how it operates, because this is only fair and proper. In the past, different criteria were used in different parts of the country. As a result, some people received medical cards who did not really need one but appreciated it, while other people could not get one even though...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: I will let Ms Bairbre Nic Aongusa answer.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: We will have to get back to the Deputy, because his question of fact requires quite a long answer and we do not have time.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: Yes.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: I will revert to the Deputy. I know some people have said we cannot give any dates, but I can say that the legislation will be ready very shortly. It may miss the deadline by a small number of weeks but it will be ready this year.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: I should say-----

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: I will confine myself to the issue raised by the Deputies around the medical card scheme. I contend with Deputy Healy that it has not always been the case that they have been given by a doctor, and the discretionary medical card-----

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: Let me finish.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: Ms McGuinness can deal with the question on narcolepsy in more detail. It is not covered under this subhead, but proposals on how to deal with it are being put together for consideration by the Government. There is no question or doubt that people have suffered as a consequence of the vaccine which was given and taken in good faith. That brings me to Deputy Denis Naughten's inquiry. This...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: I will let Ms Nic Aongusa explain that technical issue in more detail.