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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Data (11 Jul 2013)

Clare Daly: 173. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners in each institution serving sentences of greater than five years; the number of prisoners in each institution serving sentences of greater than seven years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33943/13]

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

Clare Daly: When we introduced our Bill, I was asked if the Minister would bring forward legislation and I said I believed he would. I am glad that is so. I recognise that this is important symbolically and that for the first time we are legislating for abortion in Ireland. After today, however, it is not the symbolism at which we must look but the details of the Bill and what is contained in it. In...

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

Clare Daly: The previous speaker has given a very good illustration of why this matter should be left out of the hands of politicians and treated for what it is, a health matter that should be adjudicated on between women and their doctors. We should remind ourselves of why we are here and why we are in this mess. It is precisely because the Constitution equates the life of a woman with that of an...

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

Clare Daly: I refer to the facts given about Britain because they have been used and bandied about in the media. The argument is that the 1967 Act allows abortion under the suicide clause. That is not the case. Under the 1967 Abortion Act, 90% of the abortions are on the basis of ground C which deals with pregnancies under 24 weeks, where the continuation of a pregnancy involves a risk greater than if...

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

Clare Daly: I am glad to be able to assist the Minister of State because, unlike him, I have access to the expert group's report.

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

Clare Daly: Section 6.4 of the report, on the number and role of doctors, states: "it was generally considered that two doctors with the relevant training and expertise appropriate to the case would be sufficient for making a clinical decision as to the risk to the life of the woman, whether the risk arose because of a physical or mental health condition." I appreciate that obstetricians can play a role...

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

Clare Daly: I have it and I will read it out in a minute.

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

Clare Daly: We have been waiting 21 years for it.

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

Clare Daly: This is primarily a health matter and concerns a medical opinion. The status and qualification of the medical practitioners is particularly relevant. The amendments seek to broaden the remit as to what defines an appropriate medical practitioner. Given that it is a relatively routine procedure in terms of termination and where suicide is a risk, it is a medical opinion which in any other...

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

Clare Daly: We are well aware of the deficiencies in this as a result of the eighth amendment. It was important for us to point that out in our contributions. Even within that restrictive basis, this Bill could have gone further than the Minister has allowed. He talks about there being no new rights in it on which he is absolutely correct. The point we are making is that not only are there no new...

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

Clare Daly: There has been an unbelievable disconnect between the real lives of citizens in this State and the discussion that has been conducted here in this House and in many elements of the media. It demonstrates how disconnected this House is from society. The reality is that the Bill and the discussion that has been held over the past while represent little more than substantial grandstanding,...

Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2013)

Clare Daly: I suppose the problem the Taoiseach has is one that prevails across the Government, namely, that there is an enormous disconnect between their words and the reality on the ground, the proof people experience. The reality on the ground is that there are fewer people in employment now than there were when the Government came to power. The Taoiseach has told us consistently and reiterated...

Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2013)

Clare Daly: If the Taoiseach accepts this is an emergency, as he says he does, where is his emergency response?

Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2013)

Clare Daly: Does the Taoiseach agree that one of the great ironies of the present age is that older citizens are required to work longer simply to make ends meet because half the population do not have any pension provision, while the other half who thought they were the lucky ones have found out that they are not lucky at all after paying tens of thousands of euro into schemes that will be worth...

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

Clare Daly: It is very difficult at this stage after 11 hours of debate to keep it together but this group of amendments is particularly important, given that they deal with the areas of fatal foetal abnormality, the issue of inevitable miscarriage and critically, in my opinion, the new definition of the unborn which unless it is amended will give rise to serious problems in the future. Without...

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

Clare Daly: The Minister of State can correct me in his report.

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

Clare Daly: I apologise. I did not realise the Minister of State was infallible. In his opinion he thought that was all that could be done-----

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

Clare Daly: I am quite happy to correct the record of the House, to say that in the opinion of the Minister of State, he thought that this was all that could-----

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

Clare Daly: That is okay. He said I misquoted him-----

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

Clare Daly: I have corrected it. I know that everyone is getting a little bit tetchy as it is late in the night.