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- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Brian Ó Domhnaill: Senator Walsh's contribution-----
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Brian Ó Domhnaill: Today's debate is with regard to the medical procedures. We asked many challenging questions of the Minister for Health on the medical procedures to be adopted in carrying out the procedures on which we are voting. We have received no answers.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Brian Ó Domhnaill: They will destroy a human life but they are not willing to tell us how they will do it, and this is a disgrace.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Brian Ó Domhnaill: I did not refer to amendment No. 6 but I will refer generally to the Bill. I thought when it was not moved that I could not refer specifically to it.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Brian Ó Domhnaill: I mostly agree with the Government wording, as it gives a fairer reflection. There is the idea that we move from reclassifying "unborn" to a "foetus" but I have never heard a couple say they are expecting a foetus. They expect a child.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Brian Ó Domhnaill: Maybe some couples would refer to it otherwise but I have never heard of it.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Brian Ó Domhnaill: I mostly agree with the Government's terminology. I have a question regarding section 2, with the definition of unborn and the idea of "complete emergence". There is no reference throughout the section to "complete emergence" and what that means. In reference to human life, the reference is to life during the period of time commencing after implantation in the womb and ending on the...
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Brian Ó Domhnaill: In reference to the amendments tabled on the issue of life, particularly amendments Nos. 6 to 8, inclusive, the one thing that is very apparent in the legislation - indeed, in its Title, the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill - is that it contains no legal definition of "life". What exactly are we protecting if we are not protecting life? Perhaps that is something the Minister of...
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Brian Ó Domhnaill: I would be happy to do that. For the avoidance of doubt, I refer again to the definition of life. Where is there contained in the Bill such a definition? I have not observed it. Perhaps the Minister of State might outline that. The Bill is entitled the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill - where is the legal definition that relates to the protection of "life" contained within it?...
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Brian Ó Domhnaill: That is shameful.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Brian Ó Domhnaill: Name the people.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Brian Ó Domhnaill: Yes. Amendment No. 6 is that of Senators Mac Conghail and O'Donnell. I understand this would basically remove protection from any unborn child prior to viability. If I am right in that, I want to say that, obviously, I would oppose it. I do not think I need say any more about that. My own amendment No. 8 relates to the issue of viability. I am not trying to remove any protection for...
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Brian Ó Domhnaill: I am trying to add as much as I can to the debate in a rational and practical manner.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Brian Ó Domhnaill: I hear the argument that young people are in the Visitors Gallery and listening to the debate over the Internet, which is to be welcomed. However, Ronald Reagan once said that it was odd that all of the people in the world legislating to introduce abortion had already been born.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Brian Ó Domhnaill: Who, therefore, is standing up for the unborn?
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Brian Ó Domhnaill: The reason I have referred to these comments in the course of the debate, as raised by Senator Jim Walsh in the past few days, is that it is actually what happens, regardless of whether we like it. I have seen videos and educated myself. It would nearly make me sick to look at the procedure that takes place. I am not coming at this from a medical point of view. It is gruesome, barbaric...
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Brian Ó Domhnaill: Uncomfortable as those words may be to people who find themselves forced to vote for the legislation, it is the truth.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Brian Ó Domhnaill: Unless the Senator is aware of some other way in which abortions are carried out, I do not think that is a point of order.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
Brian Ó Domhnaill: I agree with Senator Burke in some of what he said. We have an exemplary medical profession in private and public practice. Of course, their responsibilities are governed by the medical procedures prescribed in law. What we are going to do is bring in a new medical procedure to deal with suicidal ideation in women. It is a new procedure that is not legal in this country until the Bill is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Reform of Common Agricultural Policy and Common Fisheries Policy: Discussion with the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jul 2013)
Brian Ó Domhnaill: I thank the Minister. I must leave to attend the vote in the Seanad.