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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Socioeconomic Context: Dr. Caitriona Henchion and Mr. Niall Behan, Irish Family Planning Association (15 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: On a point of clarification, on what issue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Socioeconomic Context: Dr. Caitriona Henchion and Mr. Niall Behan, Irish Family Planning Association (15 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: That is a funny way of doing business.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Socioeconomic Context: Dr. Caitriona Henchion and Mr. Niall Behan, Irish Family Planning Association (15 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome our guests and thank them. Ms Donlon spoke about the disingenuous behaviour of some non-State funded agencies. We are all agreed, I am sure, that anything dishonest, underhand or coercive in pregnancy counselling is entirely wrong. Deputy Fitzpatrick and Senator Mullen drew attention in an earlier session to dangerous advice given by the IFPA and others which was the subject of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: How many did Ms Donlon say? Was it six?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: How many altogether?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Were they all-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Should counsellors getting State funding be required to inform people of a possible risk to mental health? I think Ms Donlon used the word "advised". Should they not be required?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: From abortion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I raised this in the Dáil on countless occasions at the time of the investigation and after the exposé. It was supposed to be an investigation first. Then the Minister for Health told me it was a report. Does Ms Donlon know if the gardaí were involved in any of the six services the HSE had to do an in-depth audit of?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I accept that but earlier it was suggested by previous guests that the gardaí were embarrassed to be investigating it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am just making the point that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: She does not. I appreciate her honesty. I will continue. In terms of the language used around a fatal foetal abnormality, I am sure that the witnesses are aware, and I do not suggest that they are not aware, that the HSE brought in new guidelines. Indeed, I introduced a Private Members' Bill, not that we wanted to lock anyone up or fine medics, but because we wanted more sanitised and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The HSE brought in new guidelines about two years ago.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: What about a perinatal hospice?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I asked the question because I want a pregnant person to be offered a full suite of care initiatives and not abandoned. This morning I spoke to Mr. Jonathan Irwin, founder of the Jack and Jill Foundation. The foundation provides so much care and we salute them for doing so. I want people to be given options and told that there is some care when they receive the diagnosis, and I want that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The Chairman mentioned earlier that there would be a half an hour's discussion on an issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: When?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Will that be in private or in public?

Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The European Court of Auditors published a special report on rural development programming yesterday and it found that the process is very complex and vague and that not enough emphasis is being placed on achieving results. Is that not damning proof that there is no rural proofing of any legislation that has been passed? There has been great spin about rural development, massive reports...