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Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Clare Daly: A number of our amendments are included in this group so I will try to deal with them briefly. They largely relate to a requirement to consult the woman, ascertain the views of the woman and other issues in terms of serious harm and the issue of risk. It is quite a broad berth but I will be as brief as possible. First, in the Bill, as drafted, there is no requirement to consult the...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Clare Daly: It is important go back and state amendments Nos. 33 and 34 accept the three day provision. The Minister's concerns about giving false commitments are not appropriate in this context. I want to say again with regard to the point on the Dutch model made by Deputy Catherine Murphy that the people we spoke to were very clear. We asked how could an Irish person avail of it if there is a...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Clare Daly: These are key amendments in our deliberations. They were discussed at length at committee. I want to echo the points made about where this came from. When this was discussed at the committee, to be fair, the Dutch representatives were incredibly good and this certainly did not come from them, so any idea we are basing it on the Dutch model is wrong. It was designed to facilitate and...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Clare Daly: 8 o’clock I move amendment No. 12:In page 8, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: “(2) The review under this section shall include a review of:(a) any barriers to access to services under this Act; (b) the number of pregnant people who may require travel to other jurisdictions to avail of terminations of pregnancy; (c) the categories of pregnant people who...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Clare Daly: I support the Minister's amendment No. 11, and welcome the reduction in the review period. However, our amendment No. 12 must accompany it. I reassure the Minister regarding his fears that specifying these elements might limit the type of review. He need not worry about that at all because the amendment states it, "shall include"; it does not state "shall only be" or "shall exclusively"....

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Clare Daly: It is important in order to inform the type of review which must be conducted. We are talking about access to abortion. In fairness, points made by everybody on all sides of the House during the debate yesterday demonstrated that Members want access not just for some people but for all women. I am particularly struck, for example, by the document submitted earlier from Disabled Women...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Clare Daly: It would be hypocritical of us to deny access to women outside the State, given our history and our exporting of well in excess of 100,000 over the years to the UK. That needs to be evaluated and we should specify it. My concern is that these reviews can sometimes be used to legitimise privatisation, for example. This needs to be about protecting a public service that gives access. Data...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Clare Daly: We must deal with this from the perspective of where we came from. In the context of the various scenarios outlined by the Minister, there are ample medical regulations and other legislation that would cover those rogue operators and coercers and deal with those issues. The reason it must be decriminalised is precisely because of our history, the possibility of malicious complaints and so...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Clare Daly: This section and this group of amendments are the most important before us in our adjudication of this legislation. Our names are on amendments Nos. 5 to 9 in this grouping. At the core of this is the decriminalisation of abortion in Ireland in line with the ancillary recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly, the Oireachtas joint committee, the United Nations and the World Health...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Accommodation Provision (28 Nov 2018)

Clare Daly: The problem is that it is not working. We all saw the day that was in it yesterday but parents, teachers and students from St. Joseph's Secondary School in Rush organised a protest in the town. They walked from the existing school to the field where the new school is supposed to be built. The school is oversubscribed this year by 140 students. They were outside the Dáil earlier this...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Accommodation Provision (28 Nov 2018)

Clare Daly: The problem is that the population explosion did not happen in the last five years but happened well before then. The children who live in that community and who are part of a population that has been growing for the past 20 years are now in primary and secondary school. They are facing a logjam, not to mention the children to whom the Minister refers who will be starting school in the next...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Accommodation Provision (28 Nov 2018)

Clare Daly: 39. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to improve capacity for schools across north County Dublin in view of a widespread shortage of places and a deterioration in accommodation for students. [49582/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Accommodation Provision (28 Nov 2018)

Clare Daly: This question and a number of others before the Minister relate to capacity of schools across north County Dublin, the shortage of places and the deterioration of accommodation. I have been a public representative for a long time but I have never seen this matter raised as much as now. When we try to deal with one matter, another pops up. Of the 16 major projects for the area, only two are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Clare Daly: I thank the witnesses for coming in. I will have to leave for a priority question in the Chamber. I will be back but I am sorry for the disruption. This is an incredibly important discussion, and a really difficult one because there is nothing like sex crimes, particularly in relation to children, to raise the hair on the back of everybody's neck and get everybody up in arms. We know...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Clare Daly: Anybody, really.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Clare Daly: That is really useful because my feeling is that we are framing this very much in the context of protecting the public and if we are to actually do that then it is critical that it is evidence based. I want to ask the PSNI about the categories. Category 3 was mentioned as the highest level. Who decides the categories at that earlier stage? Who carries that out? Is that just the PSNI or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Clare Daly: I will not, that is it. I have received a text to say I have to be in the Chamber in a few minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Clare Daly: Is the offender part of it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Clare Daly: Is that LAPPP one person or a number of people?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2018: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Clare Daly: So one person would not decide the assessment.