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Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: -----but that this language, in the context of the debate and the discussion we had in Ireland, is deeply inappropriate. It is an attempt to shame and devalue women. What is it the Deputies want to know? The amendment is not in order in terms of any Bill structure I have seen. What happens to the doctor who fails to get the correct number of miscarriages from a woman who has had multiple...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: Instead of the doctor's count of six miscarriages, what if she actually had seven? What are we talking about? The doctor will then potentially end up entering into a Kafkaesque nightmare of being technically in breach of the law. The amendment refers to ectopic pregnancies. Any doctor talking to a woman who is pregnant will go through her medical history in a respectful way - but numbers,...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: Do they want to know how much pain she felt upon and after each miscarriage? Would you cop on to yourselves and just treat women with respect and agree to withdraw this, please?

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: On a point of order, I ask that Deputies not make telephone calls in the Chamber.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: It is the third time.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: I object really strongly to the provisions of section 22(2)(f), as proposed in amendment No. 43a. Are we really going to look for not just the age and marital status but the ethnicity of the people who receive services this country has democratically decided should be available to women to allow them to address and control their fertility? We had a very detailed debate in this country...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: -----than it does to Ireland in this day and age. I listened really carefully for all of last week. I did not speak at all in order to listen very carefully to the comments made by the 20 or so Deputies who have consistently sought to oppose the legislation, as their democratic right. I do not know how they thought it out, but this kind of language strikes me as being from the school of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: We had the news today of the written judgment of the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice. Does the Taoiseach feel it is potentially very beneficial to Ireland and people in the UK who may want a soft Brexit or a rethink in the form of a second referendum? They are matters for the UK Government but they have an enormous influence on us. I want to know what is the Taoiseach's...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: What about the Tories? They are Fine Gael's counterparts.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: The European Union was established to end all wars on the Continent of Europe and it has been, with a number of exceptions, remarkably successful. Everybody who identifies with the European Union is very conscious of that. Irish neutrality, as a concept and a policy, owes its origin to the slaughter of Irish men, and it was mostly men, in the First World War, who signed up for a variety of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: It is.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: Has the Government done anything about the issue of the university seats? The referendum on the matter was so long ago that many people do not even know there was one.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: The one on opening the university seats franchise to all universities and colleges of higher education in Ireland.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: In the context of the upcoming general selection, which will be followed by Seanad elections, is there any proposal from the Government to extend the Seanad franchise to graduates of all third level institutions?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: It was in the mists of history.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: No change.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: Is the Taoiseach aware that there are children as young as six who are being excluded and, in a number of cases, expelled from primary school in the early years? A high proportion of the children so excluded or expelled are affected by autism and have behavioural issues in addition. In the Dublin region, there are seven special schools dealing with the children with a high level of need....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Burton: 203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of history at junior cycle (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50373/18]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (National Claims Information Database) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: What kind of amendment would be acceptable to the Department that would focus on cost comparisons, information in respect of other European countries and comparative cost details? After all, the Central Bank is part of the European system of banks. The problem with Central Bank reports is that from the point of view of ordinary people, many of them are inevitably highly technical. Would...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (National Claims Information Database) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2018)

Joan Burton: How do we know that?