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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...

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

Rónán Mullen: I am in full agreement and I commend Senator Clonan on bringing forward the amendment. I agree with everything that Senator Seery Kearney said as well. I came to know of a particular case a number of years ago where a large award was made. The retired President of the High Court, Mr. Justice Kelly, addressed people at the end of the case. He said to them that this was a very large sum but...

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

Rónán Mullen: I thank the Minister for his reply. I would be grateful if I could tease this out with him. I defer to his knowledge of the Bill as he has been with it for a long time. The amendment specifically goes to an area where a person is making decisions on behalf of another person as a decision-making representative. Is that at the higher level of intervention and support where person A is...

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

Rónán Mullen: This is another amendment that I am happy to support. I listened to the Minister's response and there is a certain logic in it because the last thing one would want to see is some kind of a conflict between the contents of an advance healthcare directive and the contents of an enduring power-of-attorney arrangement. One of the concerns would be that the EPA is something that is very well...

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

Rónán Mullen: I am not a member of the joint committee and others Senators will have engaged with this matter much more than I have. I wonder about it at a human level, however, because I imagine there are people who would rather not have to get into all the specifics. I certainly know of families where a person is quite clear who he or she would want to make the necessary decisions for him or her when...