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

Séamus Healy: I move amendment No. 4: In page 6, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following:" "inevitable miscarriage” means the inevitable failure of pregnancy and death of a foetus, up to that stage of pregnancy at which, if born, it would be capable of life outside the womb;".

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

Séamus Healy: I move amendment No. 5: In page 6, lines 30 and 31, to delete "which has regard to the need to preserve unborn human life as far as practicable" and substitute the following:"which has regard to the need to preserve unborn human life as far as practicable and with due regard to the right to life of the woman".The purpose of the amendment is to include in the section a reference to "due regard...

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

Séamus Healy: I understand and, indeed, respect the position that the Minister and Minister of State have put forward. However, I do not accept it. Other members have indicated that a previous Attorney General took a completely different view and invited the European court to take that view. Indeed, other eminent legal persons currently are of the view that, in the case of fatal foetal abnormality, it...

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

Séamus Healy: The Minister has given an assurance that there will be no delay in the implementation of the Act, so I will withdraw my amendment and reserve the right to table it on Report Stage.

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

Séamus Healy: I move amendment No. 2: In page 6, between lines 1 and 2, to insert the following:" "consent" means consent obtained freely without threats or inducements, where the medical practitioner—(a) is satisfied that the woman is capable of understanding the nature, purpose and likely effects of the proposed treatment, and (b) has given the woman adequate information, in a form and language...

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

Séamus Healy: On the basis of what the Minister has said, I will withdraw the amendment, but I may table it again on Report Stage if necessary.

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

Séamus Healy: I move amendment No. 3: In page 6, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following:" "fatal foetal abnormality" means a medical condition suffered by a foetus such that it is incompatible with life outside the womb;".These amendments relate to the question of inevitable miscarriage and fatal foetal abnormality. These are very important issues that are not dealt with in the Bill. They could...

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

Séamus Healy: I move amendment No. 1: In page 5, lines 15 to 17, to delete all words from and including “on” in line 15 down to and including “provisions” in line 17 and substitute “not later than 30 days following enactment”.The purpose of this amendment is to give clarity to the time of implementation of the Bill. Given that the background to the Bill extends...

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

Séamus Healy: Can the Minister give an indicative timescale for implementation of the Bill? I accept that he does not want significant delays.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2013)

Séamus Healy: I welcome and support this legislation which is limited and restrictive. This is a sensitive issue which is very difficult for some people to deal with - indeed for many people. The expert report expressed this well when it stated that abortion is a difficult, painful issue in this country and elsewhere. It also observed that the reasons are not hard to understand; intense ethical,...

Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Jun 2013)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Private Members’ motion and the Minister’s U-turn on teaching supports for students with special needs. For me, this U-turn means people power works. This is the second occasion with this Minister where people power has worked, the first being his U-turn on DEIS schools. Word has gone out among the public that it can defeat this...

An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Jun 2013)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this legislation. Historically the socialist movement has favoured a unicameral, or single-chamber, legislature based on universal adult suffrage. It has opposed second chambers based on restricted franchise or hereditary privilege, as is the case with the British House of Lords. This position is based on the principle of an equal say in government for...

Hundredth Anniversary of 1913 Lock-out: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Jun 2013)

Séamus Healy: I commend Deputy Higgins on tabling this motion and confirm my support for it. In 1913, Dublin employers locked out workers to force them to leave Larkin's union. Dublin workers fought an heroic battle but were not immediately successful. They lost the battle but Irish workers, inspired by the strikers, won the war to join a union of their choice, that is, the right to free association....

Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)

Séamus Healy: I support the Bill. The Taoiseach said "it is morally wrong, unjust and unfair to tax a person's home". He has reneged on that promise as he has reneged on many another policy during his period in government. This is a form of double taxation as we have already paid these taxes. It pays no regard to ability to pay. As other speakers have said, not a single extra cent will go to local...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (11 Jun 2013)

Séamus Healy: 328. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he intends to make funding available for the provision of a new school and refurbishment of the existing building (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27969/13]

Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: The Government has choices in what policies it follows. As the country has some very wealthy people in income and asset terms, there is certainly room for a wealth tax to accrue much needed income for the Exchequer. If there was ever any doubt about the high level of wealth in Ireland, it was dispelled last week when the Minister's colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Costello, informed...

Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Second Stage (30 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: There is no doubt that the Minister talks the talk but she does not walk the walk. The Bill contains only a few minor positives. It is part of an overall policy of austerity, of making cuts and of forcing middle and lower-income families pay for a recession which they had absolutely no hand, act or part in creating. The previous Fianna Fáil-Green Party Government began the destruction...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: That is the Minister's view.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: That is the Minister's view.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice and Equality: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: I support this no confidence motion and generally support the points made by previous speakers. However, my particular reason for supporting this motion is the fact the Minister has closed Kickham Barracks in Clonmel. He has destroyed the military history and tradition in the town of Clonmel.