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Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)

Paschal Mooney: I again wish to put on the record remarks similar to those I made regarding section 7. I fully support the contents of section 8.

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)

Paschal Mooney: Why is the Senator discussing UK legislation?

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)

Paschal Mooney: With all due respect, it had nothing to do with the amendments.

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)

Paschal Mooney: This has nothing to do with the UK legislation.

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)

Paschal Mooney: Can I ask that the Minister be allowed to respond at this point?

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)

Paschal Mooney: Some of those who are indicating have already contributed.

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)

Paschal Mooney: Let us hear the Minister.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jul 2013)

Paschal Mooney: I asked the Leader if, for the benefit of all Members, he would give some indication of his thinking on how the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill will progress through the House.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jul 2013)

Paschal Mooney: What time is it expected to finish?

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jul 2013)

Paschal Mooney: I ask the Leader to indicate how he sees the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013 progressing. Earlier this week the British House of Commons published a report on the horsemeat scandal, which is still very much alive despite the lack of media coverage. It is alive in the context of a lack of prosecutions. The report was critical of both UK and Irish Governments for what it...

Seanad: An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Tuarascáil - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Report Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Paschal Mooney: Not yet, Senator.

Seanad: Special Olympics Ireland: Motion (17 Jul 2013)

Paschal Mooney: It will be withdrawn in four months' time.

Seanad: Special Olympics Ireland: Motion (17 Jul 2013)

Paschal Mooney: I am only quoting from the briefings that I have been given.

Seanad: Special Olympics Ireland: Motion (17 Jul 2013)

Paschal Mooney: I said that in the context of the mobility allowance, obviously those involved in the Special Olympics or those with an intellectual disability involved in sport would be benefiting from it. Of course I am encouraged by the statement of the Minister of State. I will withdraw any inaccuracies that I put on the record of the House. I thank her for that. I am only going on the briefing that...

Seanad: Special Olympics Ireland: Motion (17 Jul 2013)

Paschal Mooney: The Chair will look very kindly on you.

Seanad: Special Olympics Ireland: Motion (17 Jul 2013)

Paschal Mooney: I wish I could keep in line with the thinking on the Government side with regard to the wording of the motion which commends the Government for its support. Perhaps the Government and the Minister of State lend support in theory, but the evidence suggests otherwise. It is sad, in a way, that we should be debating this issue and the Government is using it as an opportunity to commend itself...

Seanad: Special Olympics Ireland: Motion (17 Jul 2013)

Paschal Mooney: I am only paraphrasing the people directly involved in the organisation. It is also interesting that the Department of Health's national intellectual disability database registered 27,500 persons with an intellectual disability in the Republic of Ireland, of whom 34% or roughly 9,000 are registered athletes with Special Olympics Ireland, of whom a percentage must have been affected by the...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Paschal Mooney: Nobody is asking the Senator to accept it. It is the Minister of State's job to accept it.

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Paschal Mooney: I am very pleased that Senator O'Donnell was not browbeating the patient. I did not for one moment suggest that she would have been doing so. It is just that this is such an emotive issue and I know that opinions are very strongly held on all sides. There have been occasions when I felt like screaming and I am trying very hard to restrain myself, because I think everybody's opinion on all...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Paschal Mooney: We can still talk on them. The Minister will not end the discussion but will reply to what has been said.