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- Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: She mentioned it earlier.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: I do not want to be awkward for the staff. I have visions that we can finish this quickly. I am not saying we should go on now if people want a break, but could we make it shorter?
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: Yes, but if the break is for one hour it makes a difference.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: We did. It relates to services for pregnant people.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: I do not want to delay but I will make one brief statement. There are ancillary recommendations from the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution. I did not submit amendments to them in the interests of getting this legislation passed speedily. What is being advocated here is straying into that territory. I have no problem with that. This committee has a right to do...
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: I move amendment No. 178:In page 5, line 5, to delete “termination of pregnancy” and substitute “abortion”.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: I move amendment No. 179:In page 5, line 8, to delete "termination of pregnancy" and substitute "abortion".
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: I move amendment No. 180:In page 5, lines 10 and 11, to delete "; to provide for offences in respect of the intentional ending of the life of a foetus otherwise than in accordance with this Act".
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: Obviously, we cannot submit amendments until we see what changes the Minister propose.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Traveller Community (8 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: 146. To ask the Minister for Health when the last national Traveller health advisory committee met; when the next meeting is to take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46211/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Traveller Community (8 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: 147. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be increased for Traveller health; the action being taken to improve Traveller health; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46212/18]
- Structural Assessments of Schools: Statements (7 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: Can I just say one thing?
- Structural Assessments of Schools: Statements (7 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: Questions have not been answered here today.
- Structural Assessments of Schools: Statements (7 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: It is very frustrating. The Minister has been asked by nearly everybody why the Government continued with a company that was known three years ago to have breached fire safety standards in a school. He was also asked whether we could have had a situation similar to Grenfell in respect of these schools. He has not answered these really important questions.
- Structural Assessments of Schools: Statements (7 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: Why continue with this company when it was known years ago that there were problems with it? That was the first question.
- Structural Assessments of Schools: Statements (7 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: The Minister's predecessor knew the position three years ago. That is the question.
- Structural Assessments of Schools: Statements (7 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: Yes.
- Structural Assessments of Schools: Statements (7 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: What about political accountability?
- Structural Assessments of Schools: Statements (7 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: Yesterday, the Minister told the Joint Committee on Education and Skills that clerks of works were on site. To make it absolutely clear to people viewing these proceedings, clerks of works do not check safety, as the Minister confirmed today. As we speak, therefore, we are putting thousands of children into buildings for five or six hours a day and hundreds of employees, yet we do not have...
- Structural Assessments of Schools: Statements (7 Nov 2018)
Ruth Coppinger: I did not understand the order to be so strict and that there would be one minute back and forth.