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

Éamon Ó Cuív: There might be a wide range of information required, including additional information in the future and so on.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Schedule contains a large list of hospitals. Have the hospitals agreed to be on the Schedule?

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can I ask the Minister another question?

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister is saying there is no right of refusal. There are hospitals which are private institutions, and they could refuse. The only sanction the Minister could take in that case, I take it, is to withdraw the money?

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: Okay, but they can refuse. Is that not correct?

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: No. They might practically decide to refuse to be on the list.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: We can discuss the conscientious objection dilemma again when it arises later in the Bill. I want to make it clear that I have no issue with section 7 or 8. I presume that if there is a real and substantial risk to the life of the mother a doctor is utterly obligated to preserve her life. That has always been the medical practice and it would be outrageous if this were not the case. I do...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am discussing the purpose of the amendment. Section 4(1)(a) gives the Minister the power to make an order and states "for any matter referred to in this Act as prescribed." When the phrase "as prescribed" is used in the Bill, it means the Minister is allowed to make an order on that subject. I get a bit woolly on the limitations of this legislation. Section 4(1)(b) states: "for any...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (3 Jul 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a reply will issue to representations made by this Deputy on behalf of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32525/13]

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: 153. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application for a relocation grant lodged by a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay in issuing this payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32316/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid Applications (3 Jul 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 182. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason that there are delays in giving new appointments to persons seeking the assistance of the Free Legal Aid Board;his plans to provide extra resources to eliminate these waiting lists; the average waiting time for an appointment from the board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32330/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (3 Jul 2013)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 210. To ask the Minister for Health the reason persons who are in their seventieth year cannot apply for a medical card for over seventies, in the months leading up to their seventieth birthday, which would ensure that they had the card received by their seventieth birthday, as opposed to the present practice whereby persons cannot apply for a medical card for over seventies, until they are...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: A similar issue arose on the Animal Health Bill. We have a problem with regulations being made all the time. They are signed and there is the negative idea that one does not annul them. I made a suggestion on that Bill somewhat similar to the one made by Deputy Denis Naughten, but with a variation, that before regulations could be signed by the Minister, draft regulations be brought before...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: I may be mistaken, but I thought it was also said one could add to the list of hospitals by regulations.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thought-----

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: I understood the Minister to say that if he wanted to change the Schedule to the primary legislation, he could do so by order or regulations.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: We all know what happens in the laying of regulations. My experience of laying regulations before the Houses of the Oireachtas is that because they are not brought before a committee or dealt with in a plenary session of the Houses, many Deputies have complained during the years that they missed regulations because of the hundreds of documents placed in the Oireachtas Library. In the case...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: We have a system under which there is a huge amount of European Union legislation, much of it pertaining to agriculture. Every few weeks we receive a long list of COMs-----

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: We receive the A and B lists. Some of the documents relate to olive oil and all sorts of items that have no relevance to this country.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: We immediately decide not to suggest any amendment or change and that is the end of the matter. However, now and again, a document is brought before us with which we have an issue and we pursue the issue. What we are suggesting in this case is quite simple, that regulations to include the name of a hospital be brought before the committee. If there is no issue with this, it would take the...