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

Mattie McGrath: How can anyone trust the Minister?

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

Mattie McGrath: He does not believe they have any rights.

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

Mattie McGrath: I am saddened and shocked - we all are. We said all along - and I repeated it earlier - that we accept totally where an intervention has to be made in an emergency in terms of anything that would affect the health or the life of the mother. The Minister does not have to pick up on that. That is quite clear and understood by all of us. Some abortion advocates claim that the unborn child...

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

Mattie McGrath: How can they trust in the Minister?

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

Mattie McGrath: I am extremely disappointed and flabbergasted that is all the Minister would say, that he could just say we would be interfering with the clinicians and obstetricians. It is a feeble answer. Am I surprised? No. Why do we want to see this in the Bill? Because we do not trust you. A sizeable majority of people do not want you, even people who voted yes do not trust you. How could they?...

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

Mattie McGrath: -----that was sent out in 2011 by him, when he was Councillor Simon Harris, to pro-life people in Wicklow. "Dear [whoever], I am contesting the general election in Wicklow for Fine Gael and am happy and proud to assure you that I am pro-life."

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

Mattie McGrath: "In response to your two direct questions, ... yes, if elected to the Dáil I will oppose any legislation to introduce abortion in Ireland. ... Yes, I will support legislation that protects the human embryo from deliberate destruction and I will oppose any legislation that does not. Please be assured of my support. I need number 1 votes on Friday so I can be in a position to support...

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

Mattie McGrath: That was signed by the Minister when he was a councillor in 2011.

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...