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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: Dr. Craven misunderstood the question I asked, namely, whether the definition of unborn, as currently constituted in head 1, included even the very sad situation where the foetus is no longer alive. I believe it does, which means that it would require women, even where they do not wish to do so, to carry to term a foetus that is not alive. That is my concern, and also that in head 19 we are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I will note the Chairman's distinction in that regard. My first question is to Dr. Craven. I am at a loss to understand his submission - I have read his submission as well as listening to his contribution - and the basis for his opposition to the heads of the Bill. His view is that it changes the current two patient duty, as he put it, but in my reading, and according to the experts we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I thank in particular to Mr. Callanan and Mrs. Justice McGuinness for their comments on head 19. I share their concerns about the over-broad drafting of that criminal offence. Could I ask them both specific questions about this Bill being conceptually conservative, in particular in head 1 in respect of two definitions? I agreed with Mrs. Justice McGuinness when she said she regretted that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: That is not what Professor O'Keane said.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: First, I thank those witnesses who engaged with the terms of the heads of the Bill as members of this committee are required to do. Since the Oireachtas is required to legislate for the X case in accordance with the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights and as the Government has decided to legislate, it is helpful to have submissions that engage with the heads of the Bill, as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I will do that and I thank the Cathaoirleach.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I wish to ask Dr. Mills and Mr. O'Connor in particular about the issue regarding the general practitioner, GP. I take the point about the current wording, "where practicable", being rather vague. Would it be helpful to include a specific requirement that the GP be consulted with the consent of the pregnant woman? In a second point on definitions, Mr. O'Connor picked up on the definition of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: However, should the pregnant woman herself be criminalised?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the witnesses very much for their very helpful points and comments and for reminding us that the legislation is very restrictive but that its purpose is to provide for an accessible and effective procedure whereby women may vindicate their constitutional right to life. It is particularly helpful to hear from Dr. O'Grady who had the direct experience of having certified eligibility...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the witnesses for their compelling evidence and for clarifying a number of important points for us. First, that psychiatrists have the experience and expertise to assess suicide risk, that it is something they all do routinely and that in particular they are used to operating within the statutory framework of the Mental Health Act and of adjudicating on detaining people against their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the three witnesses for bringing their expertise for our benefit. I thank Dr. Mahony, in particular, for reminding us so powerfully of the facts of the X case and of the evidence of the suicidal intent of that unfortunate young woman. We have heard useful evidence about the lack of access to intensive care units in the maternity hospitals. All three witnesses have suggested that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I thank the witnesses for their very informative presentations. I have some specific questions aimed at ensuring women have access to effective procedures, whereby their constitutional right to life could be vindicated in the very rare cases we are discussing, as we have all said. There is a proposal to merge heads 2 and 4 which makes sense. Is the Institute of Obstetricians and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: On a point of order, the committee decided that the questions would be directed to the heads of the Bill, and many of us have respected that today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I have three very brief questions relating to the need to ensure this legislation provides an accessible and effective procedure under the terms of the A, B and C v. Ireland judgment. Head 4 concerns the specific requirements in respect of the two psychiatrists, namely, that both should be employed at a centre registered by the Mental Health Commission and one should be attached to an...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Mr. Jim Higgins, MEP (16 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Mr. Jim Higgins, MEP (16 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I apologise for not being present for the speech given by Deputy Higgins, who is very welcome to the House. We have learned during the presentations by various MEPs over the course of Ireland's Presidency that "Deputy" is the correct term. I want to pick up on Senator O'Keeffe's question about the scrutiny of EU legislation. We have discussed this matter in the House on a number of...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the useful debate we had last night on the Bill introduced by Senators Katherine Zappone and Feargal Quinn setting out proposals for Seanad reform. Their Bill and the legislation brought forward by Senator John Crown have passed Second Stage and been added to the Order Paper. It is a welcome development that these proposals will now inform the debate leading up to the referendum...

Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Second Stage (15 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister to the House and in the Visitors Gallery former Senator Mary Henry. I am delighted to see her here. As others have done, I commend Senators Katherine Zappone and Senator Feargal Quinn, in particular, and their colleagues on the immense amount of work they have put into drafting this detailed Bill on Seanad reform. I welcome the fact that we are debating it this...

Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Second Stage (15 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: The projected debate with the projected date of the referendum has focused minds on Seanad reform and has cultivated a more meaningful debate than at any time in the recent history of the Seanad. In the general election of 2011, almost all the political parties identified abolition of the Seanad as part of their political reform agendas. The Sinn Féin manifesto proposed abolition of...

Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Second Stage (15 May 2013)

Ivana Bacik: The Fianna Fáil manifesto said that if proposals for reform of the electoral system and of Government were enacted, it would support the abolition of the Seanad. It was a somewhat contingent proposal.