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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (11 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: 119. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Cork is entitled to domiciliary care allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33991/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (10 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: 169. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on an invalidity pension appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33696/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (9 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: 280. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on an invalidity pension appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32873/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Funding (4 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: 237. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will outline the level of funding received by an organisation (details supplied) under the youth services grants scheme each year since 2008; if in view of the increasing membership to this organisation she will favourably consider their appliction for funding for 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32676/13]

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: I do not think anybody in this room or anyone engaged in a serious way in this debate wants to put the life of a mother at risk but I come back the Minister's acknowledgement that there is an equal right to life. I suppose this question needs to be posed in the context of vindicating the right to life of the mother. Should this committee, in the context of framing this legislation, not...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: This is the difficulty we have as lay people but I sat through six days of hearings and I suppose by a process of osmosis we have all gained some degree of medical qualification to comment-----

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: Is there not a critical issue in terms of say 23 to 24 weeks and 28 to 30 weeks? Is there a process of case management? Is it not incumbent on us to travel that road of an advocate for the unborn child? That is something which the committee could usefully explore. Perhaps the Minister will consider coming back to it at a later Stage.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: The Minister of State, Deputy White, referred to the Constitution and the equal right to life. In conjunction with the Supreme Court's ruling in the X case, the latter is the backdrop against which the legislation is framed. The Minister of State specifically referred to Article 40.3.3°, which accords an equal right to life to the unborn. As Deputy Shortall pointed out, at a certain...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: I am thinking that the suicide issue is the most serious one.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: I accept that and do not wish to engage in an argument with the Minister on the issue, but it is ironic that it is provided for under the review mechanism, not in the initial process.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: This section is one of the areas of relatively little contention. On foot of the expert view report what struck me was that no accurate statistics were available in respect of the number of medical terminations in Irish maternity hospitals. Arising from section 7 of the Bill, there is provision for the reporting of certified entitlement to terminations and the appropriate institution will...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: I raised the issue not out of prurience or to know who the individuals concerned might be. Section 15 makes provision for the reporting mechanism and provides for it to be anonymous. However, in the context of governance and of being in a position to have an informed overview of the effect of the legislation, we need a record. It is not just about the number of applications that have been...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: I do not dispute - or perhaps I should say that I do not have the information to dispute - the Minister's assertion that these provisions are really to do with forms and so on. I take it he is referring to the forms that will be used by medical practitioners in the certification process. Will he clarify whether it is envisaged that certification will issue in respect of all applications,...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Issues (3 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: 158. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 363 of 25 June 2013, if her Department has a mechanism of tracking employees who have switched from direct employees to C2 operators without any intervening period of unemployment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32448/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Management (3 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: 200. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will account for the discrepancy in respect of the calculation on the size of a forestry plantation as determined by the Forest Service in both March 2008 and again in respect of the same plantation in early 2013 in view of the fact that the Forest Service used maps digitised by his Department in its initial calculation; the...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: I do not know, because I have not spoken to Deputy Kelleher, the reason he tabled this amendment.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: It strikes me as relevant in one context, that is, in the area of competition law. Perhaps at some stage down the line other institutions which may meet the requirements set out here but which are not envisaged by the Minister would be licensed to carry out terminations certified under the legislation. I wonder whether this section has been looked at and proofed from the point of view of...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: Is the skeletal definition of what services are required in these hospitals - in other words, the three medical specialities-----

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: To quote from the Bill: treatment of women in relation to any one or more of the following:(i) pregnancy; (ii) childbirth; (iii) post-partum care,exclusively sufficient to safeguard the health interests of women? Given the range of medical specialities available in most maternity hospitals now, where they are co-located with a series of medical specialities-----

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2013)

Michael Creed: -----such hospitals are the most appropriate place.