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Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am speaking to the amendment. I am horrified that the Minister will not accept the amendment. I have a copy of the letter in my hand to give to him when I finish. Many thousands more letters were sent out by Phil Hogan. I will ask this Parliamentary Usher to please pass the letter to the Minister for Health. I thank the Usher. That is what it is. It is just a mockery. If people know...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I appreciate that. How can we trust him if that is all the Minister can say after all the passion pleas that were made to him here by the Members?

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The amendment requires that the doctor performing an abortion takes all appropriate and practical steps to avoid causing pain to the foetus. Where the gestational age of the baby is 20 weeks or more the doctor must ensure the administration of an anaesthetic or analgesic to the foetus prior to carrying out a termination of pregnancy. However, this obligation does not apply in an emergency...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: We have heard both sides and I am appealing for a reasoned debate. There is no need for the sideshows. This is too serious an issue as Deputy Tóibín and others have stated. We know what has happened around the world. We know the experience in Finland, where they parade the fact that they will be Down's syndrome free by 2020. That is a shocking indictment. Deputy Durkan and...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Nobody said it.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: He is playing to the gallery.

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill: Report Stage (29 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I rise to support this very good amendment. As previous speakers said, it does not demand anything, albeit if anyone could or should make demands, it is the carers of Ireland. They are the unseen heroes. However, the amendment does not do that but is instead a carefully couched proposal for a timely review to consider the impediments to carers seeking to enter or return to the job market,...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I wish to raise the issue of the long and sad saga of Clonmel Garda station. It has been raised in the House for the past 40 years and still there are no better facilities for the Garda Síochána, whom I salute, there under the direction of Superintendent William Leahy. I also pay tribute to one of their colleagues who died recently, Sergeant Martin Hopkins, who was an excellent...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: We have sat here all night, a Cheann Comhairle.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: She challenged those who signed the amendment.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I hope that people here tonight and looking in will understand that we made no effort to delay this Bill in any shape, make or form and the number of amendments should show that also. I am happy to make some brief remarks about these amendments. Given the gravity of what we are dealing with here I hope a certain latitude will prevail in the discussion but I do not see it. I am not holding...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I move amendment No. 28:In page 10, lines 32 and 33, to delete all words from and including “that” in line 32 down to and including line 33 and substitute the following: “that—(a) the pregnancy concerned has not exceeded 12 weeks of pregnancy, and (b) a termination of the pregnancy concerned is not being sought because of the sex or race of the foetus concerned...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: We had a very lengthy discussion on this issue last night and I thank the Ceann Comhairle, who has just left, for his intervention asking for a reasonable and respectful debate. Amendment No. 4 was put down in good faith by Deputy Nolan and I support it wholeheartedly. As we know from the Amarach polls, 44% of those who voted to repeal the eighth amendment said they did not want to have to...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I raised an issue relating to the degeneration and neglect of Tipperary town with the Taoiseach some weeks ago. Some 5,000 people came onto the streets to march. As many as 3,000 marched last Saturday. The Taoiseach acknowledged that there were issues to be dealt with in Tipperary town and I asked him to look at setting up a task force. The Taoiseach and the Tánaiste neglected the...

Death of Former Members: Expressions of Sympathy (28 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Look at him now.

Death of Former Members: Expressions of Sympathy (28 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: He would be mesmerised.

Death of Former Members: Expressions of Sympathy (28 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I join the Ceann Comhairle and group leaders in welcoming both families. I knew Seán Ardagh and I express my sympathy to his wife, Máire, his daughter, Senator Catherine Ardagh, and other family members. They know themselves the contribution he made. When I was a member of the Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party, I heard his wise counsel at many meetings and I noted his sensible...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: It was one.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (28 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if extra funding will be made available to a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary for permanent accommodation for their new mainstream class teacher; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49701/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (28 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 190. To ask the Minister for Health the areas that will be addressed under the general scheme and heads of the human tissue Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49645/18]