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Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Does it say that?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Deputy McGrath and his colleagues are the ones shouting.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: They were duped.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I hear a lot from a lot of Deputies today, as well as in a lot of the motions, about freedom of conscience and how absolutely vital and important it is, but for umpteen years I have not heard from any of them about the absolute right to freedom of conscience where people like me are concerned. I did not hear about freedom of conscience for people like me when the Dáil prayer was forced...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I took "transfer of care" to mean that one must tell the woman that another doctor in her locality - there is no point in referring a woman from Dublin up to Donegal or vice versa- will provide the termination and has the potential to cater for the woman the following day. I thought we would be talking about some kind of referral. The uninitiated among us would read "transfer of care" in...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: A cleaner?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: The cook as well?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: No. It is a question.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I believe everybody has spoken on all of the amendments in this section.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: We are just getting tired now.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Is that it? Are we going to vote on it?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Okay.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: We are all big enough to take a few comments.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Let the Minister speak.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Is the Minister summing up on all of our questions?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I move amendment No. 150:In page 16, line 1, after “shall,” to insert “within 24 hours,”.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I move amendment No. 151:In page 16, lines 1 and 2, to delete “, as soon as may be,”.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I move amendment No. 153:In page 16, line 2, after “the” where it firstly occurs to insert “prompt”.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I move amendment No. 161:In page 16, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following:“(5) Refusals of provision of abortion by a medical professional on the basis of conscientious objection must be notified to the Minister for Health by the medical professional concerned within 7 days of the refusal.”. We have not spoken on this amendment but we may put it back in on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I move amendment No. 162:In page 16, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following:“(5) Nothing in subsection (1)shall be construed as applying to an institution, hospital or medical facility.”.