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- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I would like my questions-----
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I would appreciate it if my questions were answered by the Minister of State. That is all I am asking.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: On a point of order, that point was made by a psychiatrist during the committee hearings.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank the Minister of State for putting the facts on the record of the House.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am speaking on amendment No. 16, which concerns the risk of loss of life from suicide. At the risk of being interrupted, I will do my best to formulate thoughts which have been put to me by people in the medical profession. In the case of suicide, according to this legislation, where there is a real and substantive risk to the life of the mother, it is deemed that to save the life of the...
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I would like to follow up on the question about the number of institutions that can care for babies born on the cusp of viability. In my own family there were twins born at 23.5 or 24 weeks. At 22 weeks, when it looked like that was going to happen, one of the hospitals listed in this Schedule could not handle that. This was five years ago. The mother had to be moved to the Rotunda. This...
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: She did not die in Ireland.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I agree completely. This woman had an abortion in the United Kingdom, in a Marie Stopes clinic. This is in The Irish Times today, as Senator Ivana Bacik pointed out this morning. She might have been affected by the abortion.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Is that a point of order?
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: We had a situation in Galway where the tragic case of Ms Halappanavar was hijacked to put legislation on abortion through in Ireland.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I would like to be given the floor.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: In January 2012 the woman in question tragically died in the United Kingdom. There has not yet been an inquest into her death.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I will go back to my initial question to the Minister of State. Does he envisage any other institution offering terminations-abortions in Ireland, other than those listed in the Schedule which I think number 26? If he does, can he, please, tell us?
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Does the Minister envisage a situation where institutions other than those listed in the Schedule will offer terminations or abortions to women in this country? I am also particularly concerned about the Marie Stopes clinic and there is one such clinic in Northern Ireland. As Senator Brian Ó Domhnaill said, abortion services are now a huge industry worldwide. Today Senator Ivan Bacik...
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: Okay. However, I understand she was an Irish woman who died in January 2012.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (22 Jul 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: In this debate, there is a danger of conveying the assumption that only one opinion is right. It is not true. We must stick to the facts. Sometimes, they are difficult to hear. We can pride ourselves on the fact that the current practice in Ireland is a two-patient model of care whereby the expectant mother and the child are prioritised. I infer from Senator Walsh's amendment that this is...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jul 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am very happy to welcome Hildegarde to the Chamber. She is very welcome. We go back a bit. Her dad was very good to me. He was my mentor in politics when I started. In 2007, when I was elected to this Chamber, I had six men seeking my co-option and I approached Hildegarde and asked her whether she would be interested. Since then she has been a very fine public representative locally....
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jul 2013)
Fidelma Healy Eames: I am conscious that we are coming very close to the end of the term.