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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Report on Child and Family Income Support: Discussion (22 May 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Is that because it is based on part-time work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Report on Child and Family Income Support: Discussion (22 May 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The witnesses are very welcome. I have some questions for Ms Loftus. Will she give us a financial example of the way family income supplement, FIS, will be reduced according to the Mangan report? She said that would put a family into poverty. She stated also that she believes in keeping FIS until a better in-work benefit is introduced. What has she in mind? Surely, work should pay and...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 May 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is not what we said.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 May 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: Well said.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 May 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I agree that we held three excellent days of hearings on the abortion debate, to which the Seanad Chamber was appropriate. During the closing session yesterday, the Minister of State, Deputy White, gave a commitment that everything raised in the course of the hearings would be addressed and considered by the Government when preparing the full text of the Bill. Will the Leader ask the...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 May 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: That was my question. While I am grateful for the Minister of State's commitment, we want these concerns to be taken on board in the Bill. I have no difficulty with Senators Hayden and Bacik's comments on the relaxation of penalties on women who have abortions. Although I support Senator Clune in calling for a confirmation that there is no special tax rates for corporations in this...

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

Fidelma Healy Eames: This has been a most insightful opportunity to listen and to learn. I start by thanking the Chairman and staff of the House, and especially the expert witnesses that came before us. We can stand proud in this country to have such fine people serving the people and our patients. It is important we say that but my key remarks will be addressed to the Minister of State. I represent...

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

Fidelma Healy Eames: I would be grateful if Ms McDonagh might answer my second question, whether in the event of premature induced delivery which could lead to severe disablement of a child the State could be liable, given that under head 4 it was acting against best medical practice?

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

Fidelma Healy Eames: I believe I heard Dr. Craven correctly. He stated that a conscientious objection does not arise when there is evidence-based practice and a duty to both patients. What about the Supreme Court judgment in the X case which was not based on medical evidence or best practice? In Dr. Craven's view is this judgment ethical? I agree with Dr. Fletcher that we have an ethical obligation to value...

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

Fidelma Healy Eames: I again welcome the clarity achieved today that we are not obliged to legislate for the X case. I believe it is worth considering Dr. Maria Cahill's analysis of the reason the Bill might be unconstitutional. Members have heard warnings in the past and this possibility is worth considering. The evidence about the lack of a treatment plan is particularly relevant.

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

Fidelma Healy Eames: My question to Dr. Maria Cahill, Professor Binchy and Mrs. Justice McGuinness is whether the Oireachtas can satisfy the requirements of the European Court of Human Rights without head 4 of the Bill? After all, this is what the joint committee has been asked to do, namely, to offer such clarity to the European Court of Human Rights. I also have difficulties with head 19, which I consider to...

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

Fidelma Healy Eames: I welcome and thank the panellists. I am very grateful to Mr. Paul Brady and Ms Caroline Simons for clarifying that we are absolutely not obliged to legislate for the X case. This has become a mantra in this debate. No sooner had Mr. Brady said it than there was an intervention by Senator Bacik that it was a requirement---

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

Fidelma Healy Eames: Indeed. My first question is directed to Mr. O'Connor and Dr. Mills. Are we, as legislators, obliged to legislate for the X case, a Supreme Court judgment that is now 21 years old, given that there is now unanimity among all the psychiatrists, as shown again yesterday, that abortion is not a treatment for a suicidal pregnant woman? Indeed, Dr. Janice Walsh said that there was nothing new...

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

Fidelma Healy Eames: Such as what?

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

Fidelma Healy Eames: Chairman this is a very important point

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

Fidelma Healy Eames: Good evening panel and I thank them for being here. I will direct my first question to Dr. Janice Walshe. It is particularly interesting that C in the ABC case - we are here because of the European Court of Human Rights judgment in that case - was a woman who had cancer. Could Dr. Walshe clarify for the record what is available currently in Ireland for a woman in the position of C? We...

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

Fidelma Healy Eames: May I add a tiny-----

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

Fidelma Healy Eames: It is about the number.

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

Fidelma Healy Eames: The information comes under our remit.

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

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am struck today by the 13 or 14 psychiatrists we have had before us, by the care and compassion each of them has displayed and the holistic approach they use to assess their clients and patients. I am inclined to conclude, and agree with Dr. Ó Domhnaill, that abortion is a medieval solution to crisis pregnancy. How - he may have a legal opinion on this - can we clarify the law to...