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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: That could be amended.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the experts and thank them for their presentations. We have received quite a number of presentations and heard a lot of information. In the process we may have forgotten the basics. Am I right that the proposed legislation will be operated on the basis of Article 40.3.3° of the Constitution, which contains a constitutional commitment to the life of the woman and the unborn,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: I welcome our guests and thank them for their presentations. Dr. Moloney made a very important statement when he said it is his belief that this legislation could be practically implemented. I took it from some of his contribution that he was effectively speaking about the mirror imaging of the legislation here reflecting the procedure of panels under the Mental Treatment Act. Am I correct...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: I asked about early deliveries on the basis of suicidal ideation in Limerick.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: I apologise for the duplication of questions, but in this session we are dealing specifically with how the proposed Bill will affect the smaller and more rural units such as the one in south Tipperary from where I come. I seek clarification on the appropriate locations. I take it from what the witnesses have said the locations need to be broadened because there may not be psychiatric care...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: It is important that we remember that the backdrop to the Bill we are discussing is the constitutional protection of the life of the mother and the unborn in Article 40.3.3°. It is also the background to the X case, which refers to the real and substantial risk to the life, as distinct from the health, of the mother, which can only be averted by a termination. We are talking about a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: Several contributors referred to the provisions regarding appropriate locations, which refer to public obstetric units where there is a mental health facility. The witnesses have indicated a preference that this be broadened to include public hospitals in general. Will they elaborate on this? Will they comment on the availability of medical personnel to operate the system as outlined under...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: The point I was raising concerned fatal foetal abnormality.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: In respect of the reply to the question regarding appropriate facilities, the heads refer to health care facilities providing obstetric and mental health services. There are obstetric units in the country where mental health services are not provided.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: Could Dr. Holohan clarify the question of non-viable fatal foetal abnormality? My understanding is that the Government in A, B and Cv. Ireland referred to this matter and indicated that there was a belief that it was constitutional. Certainly, evidence presented to this committee in January was very strong in the belief that Article 40.3.3° covered this area. Could Dr. Holohan tell us...

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: International vulture capitalists are roaming the country buying up assets for a song. The Government led the way in these fire sales when it allowed 37% of Bank of Ireland to be bought by the American financier Wilbur Ross for just over €1 billion, leaving the State with a 15% stake in the bank in which it invested €5 billion. This Bill is related to a deliberately...

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: I wish to take the opportunity provided by means of my contribution to the debate on the Bill to commend the Ballyhea Says No group on its actions and to place its proposals on the record of Dáil Éireann. The group in question has been marching in Ballyhea for the past 115 weeks. The group in Charleville has been marching for 100 weeks and the growing Ireland Says No movement has...

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: I am doing so. This is Second Stage and all the matters to which I refer are germane to the debate.

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: The promissory notes were issued in 2010 to cover a flagrant abuse of the emergency liquidity assistance fund, when €31 billion was pumped into two already insolvent institutions, namely, the former Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide Building Society. This was an abuse which the ECB approved. The group is also seeking that the EU - through the European Stability Mechanism -...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (14 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: 264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reverse his decision to refuse to sanction the post leaving certificate programme for 2013/2014 at a college (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22637/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (14 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: 265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that all children with Down's syndrome attending mainstream primary schools have access to specifically allocated resource teaching hours with effect from the start of the coming school year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22638/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (14 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: 312. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of visits his Department and the employment agencies have arranged to the vacant state of the art former Cordis Plant at Cahel, County Tipperary; the possibilities of finding an industry for the plant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22639/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Rights Issues (14 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: 322. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the successful European Court case taken by former Waterford Crystal workers in respect of their pension rights, if she will ensure pension payments to these workers at the same level as their British counterparts 90%; if she will ensure that future pension payments are protected for workers in similar circumstances; and if she will...

Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013. Listening to Deputy Gerald Nash, I had to smile at his proposal for a local authority house building programme when the fact is the programme has already been privatised. That privatisation is being implemented and overseen by a Labour Party housing Minister, Deputy Jan O’Sullivan. If Deputy Gerald Nash and the...

Fodder Crisis: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 May 2013)

Séamus Healy: I propose to share time with Deputies Luke 'Ming' Flanagan, Mattie McGrath, and Healy-Rae. I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Private Members' motion on the farming and fodder crisis of the past 12 months. There is no doubt the farming community has been going through a difficult time, particularly smaller and medium-sized farmers, who have been under particular pressure due to the...