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Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Colm Keaveney: Ms X will be 35 years old this year. She was 14 years old when she found herself in this situation. The notion was expressed to other Deputies, in particular Deputy Áine Collins, that this proposal would be absolutely unacceptable. It is clear across the House that there is a need for compassion from the Government in looking at an amendment in this area. I ask the Minister to look...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Colm Keaveney: I am speaking on amendments Nos. 153 and 157. I have previously pointed out that neither side of the debate is prepared to engage with the arguments of the other side, preferring instead to deal in caricatures. This is a dialogue that has emerged over the past several weeks, with very few people listening. Section 22 of the Bill is a case in point. It has been argued that the 14-year...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Colm Keaveney: One could argue that in 20 years time many of us will regret supporting or rejecting the Bill. We could look back and feel guilty or somewhat foolish. As legislators, it is our responsibility to reconcile both sides of this debate. The rhetoric that has been deployed by some people in this debate has been somewhat dishonest. It is not a fair representation when an opinion poll asks if...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Colm Keaveney: I am speaking to amendment No. 58. Many parts of the Bill are to be welcomed in that they provide legal clarity for medical professionals when they are faced with a situation in which a woman's life is at risk and where action is necessary to save her life that may result, as an unintended consequence, in the death of the unborn. The Bill, however, contains some flaws and once again, as I...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Colm Keaveney: The Minister of State is shaking his head himself.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Colm Keaveney: The Minister is prepared to provide for a penalty of six months for a public service worker who knowingly obstructs a procedure, as described earlier, in the unforeseen circumstance that there is destruction of the life of the unborn. Why would he provide for a penalty of six months on that basis when, under his own interpretation of section 22, he is prepared to imprison a woman for 14 years?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Colm Keaveney: On the discussion on the amendment on the obstruction of a staff member carrying out a function with respect to a termination, the Minister of State arrived at a position where consideration was given to a six-month sentence. If we were to accept the logic of the Minister of State, Deputy Alex White, how could we secure the position stipulating a potential sentence of 14 years? I fully...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Colm Keaveney: I agree with the two previous speakers. There is no doubt that irrespective of one's position on the overall debate or the substantive issues, the proposal in section 22 is completely unacceptable to the majority of people in society who would have grave concerns that the scale of the penalties envisaged in the Bill would apply to a woman in this situation. I appeal to the Minister to look...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Colm Keaveney: I am providing some of the context for my contribution on the amendment.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Colm Keaveney: Section 9 provides that two psychiatrists may find that a woman's life is at risk from suicide and an abortion is required as a treatment. That standard seems to exceed the standard provided in the Mental Health Act. Will the Minister indicate how the Bill will be compatible with the Mental Health Act? Will he assure us, in light of his public utterance that the section will only apply to...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Colm Keaveney: The standard exceeds-----

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Colm Keaveney: I seek clarification from the Minister and Ministers of State on a matter which I raised with the Minister in the House the other evening. The Minister and Minister of State will be aware that Dearbhail McDonald, legal correspondent at the Irish Independent has made an observation on how section 9 of the Bill interacts with the Mental Health Act 2001.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Appeals (3 Jul 2013)

Colm Keaveney: 109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) may expect a response to their current appeal to Student Universal Support Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32406/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Appeals (3 Jul 2013)

Colm Keaveney: 113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) may expect a response to their current appeal to Student Universal Support Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32424/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Appeals (3 Jul 2013)

Colm Keaveney: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) may expect a response to their appeal to Student Universal Support Ireland; if he will resolve the issue whereby SUSI has issued this individual with two reference numbers; if he will clarify which one they should use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32412/13]

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Jul 2013)

Colm Keaveney: I wish to thank the Technical Group for facilitating me with speaking time on this important matter. It is indeed a pleasure to be afforded an opportunity to exercise my freedom of speech within the national Parliament. The raison d'être of this debate for both sides is to object immediately to the other person's position. It is the position on either side merely to oppose. There has...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting Applications (18 Jun 2013)

Colm Keaveney: 363. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when a person (details supplied) in County Galway may expect the Gardaí vetting process to be completed in order that they may engage in an employment scheme dependant on the outcome of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28656/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: EU Conventions (11 Jun 2013)

Colm Keaveney: 678. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the Government intends to sign the European Convention on Preventing and Combatting Violence Against Women; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27314/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Accidents Data (11 Jun 2013)

Colm Keaveney: 735. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of vehicular traffic accidents that have been recorded at or in close proximity to the crossroads at Knockdoe, Claregalway, County Galway, being the junction between the N17 and the roads leading to the townlands of Carraghy and Monroe, in the periods from the beginning of November 2012 to end of April 2013, and from the beginning...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Calming Measures (29 May 2013)

Colm Keaveney: 270. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport with reference to recent traffic calming works carried out on the N17 at Carraghy, Knockdoe, County Galway; if he will confirm that the National Roads Authority is the body that supplied and or approved the design of the works; the regulations and or guidelines in which such works should conform; if he will confirm that an engineer...