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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: I take on board what Deputy Ó Cuív has said. Deputy Shortall has raised the issue of a lack of legal protection for the psychiatrist. While the Minister of State, Deputy White, can deal with that matter in a more comprehensive fashion, it is dealt with in normal practice in good faith. No one can predict with certainty the outcome of a psychiatric condition and sadly, there is...

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, I had.

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 deal, first, with Deputy Michelle Mulherin's concerns. It is no harm to reiterate that I intend to introduce amendments to these sections on Report Stage. The amendments will not change the substance of the sections but will make it clear that the life of the unborn is to be protected in all instances, as well as that of the mother. Deputy Michelle Mulherin presumes that a woman who...

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 Seamus Healy raised the issues of an inevitable or immediate risk to a woman's life and the possibility of having two rather than three doctors involved in the process. I have made my position clear on these matters. This is a subjective assessment as there is an absence of biochemical and physical markers. We believe, and it is a Government decision, that there should be two...

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 respond to the first three Deputies and we might return to the Deputy O'Donnell at the end. Deputy Ó Caoláin wants, in essence, to have one psychiatrist and one obstetrician rather than two psychiatrists. Deputy Boyd Barrett raised the same issue and said that the expert group had mentioned two psychiatrists as one of the options. The group also mentioned one...

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 are talking about two different circumstances. Reasonable opinion is mentioned in my amendment under subsection 1(a)(ii).

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: Reasonable care is a different matter because the patient is already in a clinical setting and a decision has been made.

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 understand the Mental Health Act refers to a person who has been committed against his or her wishes, or involuntarily, to a mental health institution and who disputes the right of the clinician to have made that decision. Therefore, its reference to "reasonable care" is appropriate because the person is "in care". My amendment in today's Bill is about forming an opinion for the purpose...

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 am always happy to consider what has been said but I must advise Deputy Boyd Barrett that we consulted the Attorney General on this very point. She stated it was superfluous and unnecessary and would lead to complications within the Bill as one would then have to go down the route - which the Minister of State, Deputy White, has already mentioned - of defining what "immediate" and...

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. 28: In page 9, to delete lines 24 to 34, and substitute the following:"(1) Notwithstanding the generality of section 7, or any determination made or pending pursuant to section 13 of an application under section 10(2), it shall be lawful to carry out a medical procedure in respect of a pregnant woman in accordance with this section in the course of which, or as a result...

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. 30: In page 9, line 38, to delete “subsection (1)(b) and (c)” and substitute “subsection (1)(a) and (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: I move amendment No. 32: In page 10, to delete lines 4 to 14, and substitute the following:"(1) It shall be lawful to carry out a medical procedure in respect of a pregnant woman in accordance with this section in the course of which, or as a result of which, an unborn human life is ended where--(a) subject to section 19, three medical practitioners, having examined the pregnant woman, have...

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 amendments proposed by Deputy Seamus Healy and some other amendments which I have dealt with already apply throughout the Bill and would add additional wording in respect of the nature of the risk to indicate that while it must be real and substantial, it does not need to immediate or inevitable. The amendments are unnecessary because section 8 provides for circumstances where the risk...

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: What I am saying is that the amendments are unnecessary. I fully acknowledge what Deputy Seamus Healy has said about the Supreme Court's judgment in the X case, that the risk does not need to be either immediate or inevitable. As a consequence of ministerial amendment No. 16, amendments Nos. 17 and 18 fell. Perhaps I can refer to my notes in dealing with the other contributions made....

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: Exactly. I do not believe it is practical and do not see how it would work. There would be huge issues around privacy and doctors would object hugely in terms of interference in the doctor-patient relationship. One can argue and take a different view as a legislator - I accept that - but I do not see how it would work. As such, I would not be prepared to accept an amendment.

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 much more practical because an application will have been made and certified. A review will be sought and it is the woman's prerogative to so do. In the other case she has not given her consent for all of this information to be made available and I believe it would have detrimental effects on the doctor-patient relationship if that were to be the case.

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: In the interests of speed will the Deputy look at the definition of "medical speciality" in section 2 as it is defined exactly as he has outlined on the very last line of page 6.

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 Catherine Byrne asked me to read the first part of my response again. I am happy to do so. Legal advice has been received to the effect that the legal meaning of the term "forthwith" is "immediately". This qualification, like other proposed phrases such as "with appropriate urgency" and "immediately", is unnecessary because this section of the Bill uses terms such as "shall make...

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: In order to correct the record and for the purposes of absolute clarity, conscientious objection in medical practice is well understood and is provided for within the medical guidelines. It is acknowledged in section 7 of this Bill, with deals a physical threat of illness which is not immediate, and in the case of a risk of suicide. It is not provided for in section 8, where the threat is...

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 medical practice dictates that one act with expediency. One does not have the luxury of sitting there twiddling one's thumbs if there is a conscientious objection. If a conscientious objection is made known, then one must act with all reasonable speed to ensure the patient is transferred to another doctor who can meet the patient's medical need. We are stipulating in law for the...