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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am proposing that we have a vote on it. I called the vote and it was seconded by Senator Mullen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Can we have some respect shown by people in here who are clearly ignorant? Can we have some respect shown when we are speaking? To be scoffed at and hissed at is disgraceful. If we did it, we would be accused of bullying. It has been already said that we were bullying.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Can we decide now? I am calling a vote. I am happy to wait until afterwards. I do not want to delay them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I have called for a vote.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Sorry?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am not in the habit of walking out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: You do not have it. We need respect, not order. Please, chair. I am calling a vote.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I do not mind if it is left until later. I am asking for a vote. You can call the vote. I am asking you, Chair. It was seconded. Can we have a vote on the issue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Why not? It does in other committees.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I do not mind that at all. I have no problem with that. I am just asking that we have a vote later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: No, I want to decide it now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: International Legal and Services Context: Dr. Gilda Sedgh, Guttmacher Institute and Ms Leah Hoctor, Center for Reproductive Rights (8 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The centre for reproductive rights brought Ireland to court to seek changes to our abortion laws. Does Ms Hoctor consider that the pre-born child has any rights, in particular the right to life?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: International Legal and Services Context: Dr. Gilda Sedgh, Guttmacher Institute and Ms Leah Hoctor, Center for Reproductive Rights (8 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The question I asked was, "Does Ms Hoctor consider that the pre-born child has any rights, in particular the right to life?"

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: International Legal and Services Context: Dr. Gilda Sedgh, Guttmacher Institute and Ms Leah Hoctor, Center for Reproductive Rights (8 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: That answers the question but I do not agree with Ms Hoctor. The United Nations committee on the rights of persons with disabilities stated that legalising abortion on disability grounds was a violation of the human rights of people with disabilities under the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities. I travelled with some people to the UN in 2015 and attended the committee....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: International Legal and Services Context: Dr. Gilda Sedgh, Guttmacher Institute and Ms Leah Hoctor, Center for Reproductive Rights (8 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I attended a meeting of the committee and one of the women present had had a fatal foetal diagnosis but her child is now aged 11 and was with us. The committee made a statement on this quite recently, though the presentation was made in 2015. Two weeks ago, a UN committee also stated that "fatal" and "incompatible with life" were terms that should not be used.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: International Legal and Services Context: Dr. Gilda Sedgh, Guttmacher Institute and Ms Leah Hoctor, Center for Reproductive Rights (8 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I profoundly disagree. The HSE has issued new guidelines in recent times, discontinuing the use of the terms "fatal foetal" and "incompatible with life" and using softer terminology. I have brought forward a Private Members' Bill on the issue but the HSE has acquiesced already, with more compassionate and sensitive language on pregnant mothers or couples presented with such diagnoses....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health: Dr. Anthony McCarthy, National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street (8 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I thank Dr. McCarthy for coming in. I have to take him up on something he said earlier about people saying back in 2013 or 2012 in the committee that I was a member of that there would be bus loads of psychiatrists coming in to allow abortions if the 2013 legislation went through. Can the witness enlighten us as to who claimed that or is he quoting from the records? I do not remember...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health: Dr. Anthony McCarthy, National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street (8 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: In the committee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health: Dr. Anthony McCarthy, National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street (8 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: In the hearings?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health: Dr. Anthony McCarthy, National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street (8 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Perhaps Dr. McCarthy could check the record and respond to me later.