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Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: My point is that if the proposers have such a little view of women that they do not think that they should be able to have such agency over their own lives and they should be subjected to these forms of torture, people could deduce – let me put it this way - that it is misogyny. The proposers of the amendment should just go back to their golden era of the 1950s and leave the rest of...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Does it say that?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Deputy McGrath and his colleagues are the ones shouting.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: They were duped.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I hear a lot from a lot of Deputies today, as well as in a lot of the motions, about freedom of conscience and how absolutely vital and important it is, but for umpteen years I have not heard from any of them about the absolute right to freedom of conscience where people like me are concerned. I did not hear about freedom of conscience for people like me when the Dáil prayer was forced...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I took "transfer of care" to mean that one must tell the woman that another doctor in her locality - there is no point in referring a woman from Dublin up to Donegal or vice versa- will provide the termination and has the potential to cater for the woman the following day. I thought we would be talking about some kind of referral. The uninitiated among us would read "transfer of care" in...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: A cleaner?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: The cook as well?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: No. It is a question.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I believe everybody has spoken on all of the amendments in this section.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: We are just getting tired now.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Is that it? Are we going to vote on it?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Okay.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: We are all big enough to take a few comments.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Let the Minister speak.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Is the Minister summing up on all of our questions?

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I move amendment No. 150:In page 16, line 1, after “shall,” to insert “within 24 hours,”.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I move amendment No. 151:In page 16, lines 1 and 2, to delete “, as soon as may be,”.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I move amendment No. 153:In page 16, line 2, after “the” where it firstly occurs to insert “prompt”.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I move amendment No. 161:In page 16, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following:“(5) Refusals of provision of abortion by a medical professional on the basis of conscientious objection must be notified to the Minister for Health by the medical professional concerned within 7 days of the refusal.”. We have not spoken on this amendment but we may put it back in on Report Stage.