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Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Rónán Mullen: So he Minister is leaving it up to the judgment now, which in circumstances-----

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I am sorry. I will wait until I get called on to speak. I apologise. I did not mean to. If I may-----

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I think there is an element of confusion in what the Minister is saying. I can understand him when he says that when the eighth amendment was in place it was seen to be required that there would be this clear statement but what he is ignoring is just because it is maybe not as required now at the constitutional level, that does not mean that it is not desirable. As I said, the existing...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Not only that, I fear that despite what the Minister has said about going away and thinking about it, it is clear from the last thing he said that he intends that, in future, there will not be a presumption in favour of protecting the life of the unborn. Am I correct in thinking that current clinical practice is guided by the 2015 legislation? Has that section of the 2015 legislation that...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Basically, the section the Minister is proposing to remove, which is the protection that was inspired by the eighth amendment, as he put it, never came into force. Is that correct?

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I am asking this because the Minister stated that he wants clinical practice to be able to evolve. He is proposing the removal of a presumption in favour of continuing the giving of care to protect the unborn in situations where a directive is silent as to what is to happen during pregnancy. He said that he wants to get rid of this and wants to allow clinical practice to evolve. The only...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Rónán Mullen: The last thing the Minister stated in his reply worried me.

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Is é tástáil na putóige a hithe.

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I would like to speak, but thought not at the same length, if I may.

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I will not speak at the same length as previously because, to some degree, the Minister has answered the question I wanted to ask. On at least two occasions, interestingly, he referred to the provisions that allow for the possibility of giving life-sustaining treatment pending a court determination in relation to an AHD. He envisages that such a determination or court issue will arise where...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I did not see that one coming.

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I will follow on from that. Is it now the case that in all our future legislation there will never be anything but references to "the pregnancy", when what is meant is the child in uteroor, in Latin, the foetus, which I think means "little one", that clearly identifies the human entity as the child in utero? Is there are any openness to something more precise, following on from what Senator...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Were the Minister kind enough to come back on Report Stage with specific answers to the questions I asked, I would be very grateful. The question I asked a moment ago might reveal my huge medical ignorance, as I said, but neither of us are medical people and it is very relevant. If it were the case, for example, that there were certain kinds of non-life sustaining treatment the refusal of...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Are you saying you would prefer the word "foetus" to "pregnancy"?

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Rónán Mullen: The Minister has the apparatus of State behind him. Would he mind addressing the issues I have raised today on Report Stage? Will he address the specific questions I have asked, including the one about non-life-sustaining treatment?

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I am withdrawing my opposition. I am happy to wait until Report Stage.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Oct 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Not at all. There are two brief comments that I would like to make on rule of law issues but they touch on areas where we may need a debate. There is a man who continues to be in prison because he will not purge his contempt in relation to a civil matter. I am on the record as saying that the man in question, Mr. Enoch Burke, should purge his contempt. I am concerned nevertheless about...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Oct 2022)

Rónán Mullen: It is a civil matter rather than a criminal one.

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Sep 2022)

Rónán Mullen: Would Senator Clonan like to speak to the issue in the section? It is his opportunity to do so. I also wish to speak to the amendment, but I am happy to give way to Senator Clonan as it is his amendment.

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Sep 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I would also like to speak to the section because of the particular issue Senator Clonan has raised. Once again, we find ourselves in a situation whereby the dreaded Standing Order 41 interferes with the ability of Members to put down substantive amendments which deserve to be considered. It would have been appropriate that Senator Clonan's amendment be dealt with because it relates to a...