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Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: We would be in dangerous territory if we started asking people at every interview about their conscientious objection status. It is unlikely to happen and I say this with trepidation but I know that some institutions that espouse a very Catholic ethos would be staffed by people who would not be bound by that ethos and who would have a different view of a woman in distress. I do not think it...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: I think I have made my position clear on this. I do not have any further comment to make, other than to respond to Deputy O'Donnell, who asked where it was in the Bill. It is in section 2(2).

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: That was the purpose of it. It is stated in section 15: (1) The Executive shall, not later than 30 June in each year, prepare and submit to the Minister a report on the operation of this Chapter in the immediately preceding year. [So it is the executive that will prepare the report]. (2) Notwithstanding the generality of subsection (1), a report under this section shall, in respect of the...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: Yes.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: I will be. I made that very clear. That will be in the regulations on the form.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: That is why there is a reference to "a report" as opposed to "the report". More information will be made available to me. The executive shall produce "a report" that is published, but a much more-----

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: It is in the regulations. It is in the notifications I receive. It is not so much a regulation of a report, but the notifications that will contain the information that comes to me on a monthly basis in any event and which will have all that information on it.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: Section 20.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: I think I addressed this already when I said I did not propose to accept the amendment tabled by the Deputy. It would not be appropriate for a report of this type to contain the information specified by the Deputy. These are matters to be considered by medical practitioners involved in the formal review process only in light of their legal and constitutional obligations.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: I move amendment No. 73: In page 14, to delete lines 10 to 15 and substitute the following:"(3) In preparing a report under this section, the Executive shall exclude from the report information that identifies, or that could reasonably lead to the identification of--(a) a woman who has made an application under section 10(2) or in respect of whom such an application has been made by a person...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: Deputy Ó Cuív raised the issue of increasing numbers. I would pick up such a development very quickly when I would look at the monthly notifications. I have the power, once I invoke the Health Information and Quality Authority, HIQA, to investigate, to suspend the service if I am concerned about safety. Such a suspension would remain in place until HIQA has reported back to me....

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: A report will be laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas. I am sure this committee will know that has happened, in the normal way that it always knows when issues or reports relating to it are laid before the Houses. It knows when the HSE annual report is laid before the Houses. I assure Deputy Conway that the refusals on review will be recorded in addition to the ones that are...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: Heaven forbid.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: The person must have her consent to act on her behalf.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: I move amendment No. 67: In page 13, line 39, to delete “this”.The purpose of the amendment is to correct a drafting error.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: I could not have put it better myself. I need to know the registration numbers of the doctors carrying out and certifying procedures to ensure there is no abuse. That is for the Minister to know, but publishing them would expose doctors to a witchhunt, which I do not think is appropriate and of which I disapprove. Section 20 of the Bill covers notifications and sets out, in some detail,...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: I move amendment No. 69: In page 14, line 3, to delete “year” and substitute the following:“year, and the Minister shall, as soon as may be after receiving the report, cause copies of the report to be laid before each House of the Oireachtas”.I wish to insert amendments Nos. 69 and 73 as, in the interests of transparency, it is appropriate that reports on the...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: Can I return to the matter on Report Stage? I hear what people have said. There is the part about the advocate on behalf of the unborn, which we have already covered and really is not workable. I will respond to the point made about the wording "to hear the woman or a person acting on her behalf".

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: I refer Deputy O'Donnell to sections 7(1)(b) and 9(1)(b).

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

James Reilly: It is just written in a different way. I understand what the Deputy means but it is not necessary to change it.