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

Jerry Buttimer: Please respect the witness, Senator Walsh. You have spoken already and were allowed to make an intervention. You are not helping.

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

Jerry Buttimer: One speaker, please.

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

Jerry Buttimer: We now move on to non-committee members' time and already there are seven speakers for a 15 minute slot. I will add time at the end to allow for the overlap. Members should try to be brief rather than speak at length. I call Deputies Joe McHugh, Billy Timmins and Michael Creed in that order.

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

Jerry Buttimer: The Deputy missed my remarks at the beginning. The Minister of State will reply at the end of the three day discussion on behalf of the Government.

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

Jerry Buttimer: There are four more speakers in this slot but first I will call Dr. Holohan.

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

Jerry Buttimer: I will call on Dr. Holohan and then we will move on to non-members' time.

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

Jerry Buttimer: Deputy Healy may speak regarding a point of clarification.

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

Jerry Buttimer: Deputy Healy indicated that he wished to speak. I ask him to be brief because he has already spoken twice.

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

Jerry Buttimer: Members' time ends at 10.44 a.m. and nine members have expressed an interest. Non-members have also indicated. Members should keep their questions tight, as we will end this session at 10.44 a.m. I call Senators Burke and Walsh and Deputy Naughten, in that order.

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

Jerry Buttimer: I remind members that the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy White, will be here at the end of our session to reply to the three days of hearings, so the Minister and the Government will be here at the very end as well.

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

Jerry Buttimer: Thank you, Dr. Holohan. As agreed, there will now be an opportunity for questions and answers. This session will end at 11 a.m. Time will be allocated as 70% for members of the committee and 30% for non-members. I will indicate when the members' time is up. I now call on Deputy Billy Kelleher. I ask members to stand when they are addressing the committee, rather than sitting down.

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

Jerry Buttimer: I thank the Minister for his opening remarks. As members were notified by e-mail yesterday afternoon, the Minister will leave us shortly. Before I call Dr. Tony Holohan, I acknowledge the presence of Ms Alessandra Fantini whom I forgot to mention at the beginning.

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

Jerry Buttimer: I welcome everyone to this morning's session. Is it agreed that we begin in public session? Agreed. I remind members of the committee, witnesses and those in the Gallery, be they members of the media or members of the public, to ensure their mobile telephones are switched off for the duration of the meeting as they interfere with the broadcasting equipment even when they are on silent...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Ministerial Travel (7 May 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: 93. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will report on his visit to Lebanon, Israel and Palestine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21133/13]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Ministerial Travel (7 May 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: 106. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will report on his visit to Lebanon, Israel and Palestine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20590/13]

Organ Donation: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Is it agreed that I can share time with the Deputies on the Acting Chairman's list?

Organ Donation: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: Deputy Mary Mitchell O'Connor may also be included. I am not entirely sure of that.

Organ Donation: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: It is my privilege to speak on this motion, not least as Chairman of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children which had the privilege in the past two weeks of hosting witnesses and kidney and other organ donors and recipients in its rooms. I am very conscious that Joe Brolly and Shane Finnegan have become poster people for organ donation and, as Deputy Ó Caoláin noted,...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Ministerial Travel (1 May 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: 31. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on the overseas visits for St. Patrick's Day of the Ministers of State at his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20296/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Ministerial Travel (1 May 2013)

Jerry Buttimer: 38. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on his visit to Boston; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20295/13]