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Seanad: Order of Business (26 Nov 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I will be sorry to see Mr. Bernard Hand leave the House but I expect he will return. He has treated everyone with warmth and great attention. I will miss him. Further to Senator Mullen's comment about farmers and the IFA salaries, farmers feel very deceived at the unacceptable and undisclosed levels of salaries for senior IFA personnel that have gone on for a long time. I hope that will...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: .... We never got it back but that is another day's work. What I am talking about right now is the need to re-stabilise things. I want to check with the Leader if the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade has arranged for the repatriation of Irish tourists and families in Tunisia. I listened to many of them yesterday. They are literally trapped in their hotels. A mother with four...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Minister for Health, Deputy Varadkar, was in this House just over a week ago talking about the HSE's service plan. He said he would not comment on the state of accident and emergency units in individual hospitals. However, the Minister has to deal with hospitals individually because there is a difference between them and a crisis in some. The information I have is absolutely shocking....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Coping with Stillbirth Loss: Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Association (16 Oct 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ...that Féileacáin is offering people at a time of grief when, as Deputy Neville said, there is no other outward sign of the acknowledgment of the parents' huge loss. We do funerals well in Ireland. We go through a process which helps people deal with their bereavement. I see that Féileacáin is trying to offer that acknowledgement to the parents of the stillbirth or...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (11 Jun 2014)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ...was born in the Grove Hospital in Tuam which was run by the Bon Secours nuns. I have wondered since this story broke whether we were born alongside some of these children who were condemned to the mother and baby homes. Subsequently, I went to boarding school in Tuam and I taught for some time in Tuam. What I am trying to get at here is that never in my living history did I know about...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in the UK and the Royal College of Midwives have stated that after 24 weeks a foetus feels pain. What I completely object to is the condescending tone being used by some Members who cannot listen to the evidence. I am not just referring to the Minister of State in this regard, I am also referring to a number of Senators. The tone to...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (23 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ...Kingdom, says this is the case from 17 weeks onwards. My amendment requests that an anaesthetic be provided for the unborn at terminations at 16 weeks, provided there is no ill effect for the mother. I have looked widely at research in this area. In neonatal units in the United Kingdom, surgery on foetuses over 23 weeks is performed with the unborn child under anaesthetic. It is...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ...interrupted, I will do my best to formulate thoughts which have been put to me by people in the medical profession. In the case of suicide, according to this legislation, where there is a real and substantive risk to the life of the mother, it is deemed that to save the life of the mother the baby's life must be taken. This includes the threat of suicide. What is the legal status of the...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (22 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: ...assumption that only one opinion is right. It is not true. We must stick to the facts. Sometimes, they are difficult to hear. We can pride ourselves on the fact that the current practice in Ireland is a two-patient model of care whereby the expectant mother and the child are prioritised. I infer from Senator Walsh's amendment that this is what he meant. I understand that "current...

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

Fidelma Healy Eames: I move amendment No. 30: In page 10, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following:"9. (1) Any pregnant woman who presents as suicidal at her general practitioner or at an accident and emergency department shall be entitled to a Care Pathway which shall comprise the following steps--(a) a full psychiatric assessment and an assessment of capacity within two hours of presenting at her general...

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

Fidelma Healy Eames: I move amendment No. 23: In page 9, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following:“(5) No procedure as defined herein where the result of such procedure is the delivery of a viable infant shall expose any medical practitioner to civil or criminal liability for negligence.”. Amendments Nos. 23, 29 and 42 all relate to the issue of doctors' criminal or civil liability. On the...

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

Fidelma Healy Eames: I am not inventing these situations; doctors have put them to me. We are going into a whole new area here. Doctors may deliver babies earlier than they should because of what we say is a real and substantial risk to the life of a mother. The baby is not looking to be born at that point. We may create a situation where there is injury. There is at least a danger that an obstetrician who...

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

Fidelma Healy Eames: The word "is" makes it dangerous. Up to now the practice has been that should the mother's life need to be saved, that is the goal, but it may mean the unintentional taking of the baby's life. I understand that everybody is fine with that. What worries me about the wording in the section is that it makes clear that an unborn human life is ended. This is actually worse than the current...

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

Fidelma Healy Eames: If I could continue my point, the reason they said they were happy is because they had a reference point around the birth of the baby. They had those few minutes, hours or years with the baby. They had their family around them. They had a support group. Every year afterwards, they were able to celebrate that life. I am not saying this is my view. That is what they stated, and I have to...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2013)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I thank Senators Feargal Quinn and Mary-Ann O'Brien for moving my reasoned amendment to the Bill yesterday. This Bill has been a momentous journey for me. I came to this debate with an open mind. I was not and am not part of any campaign, pro-life or pro-choice. From the outset, my sole concern has been to ensure that any changes are in the best interests of expectant mothers and their...

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...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (15 Dec 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: .... Perhaps it is the place to be, given that is where all the action is with such a large welfare budget. My overarching position is I do not favour a welfare state but social justice is important and that is why I am a member of Fine Gael and why I live and work under this mantle. I am a member of the party because, on the one hand, we promote enterprise and entrepreneurship and, on the...

Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Mar 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I support Senator Bacik in her choice of words because, as I alluded to earlier, there may be cases where the mother does not know who the father is and the baby may have been conceived as a result of a very traumatic experience, be it rape or incest. The word "refuses" implies a lot that may only add to a great deal of pre-existing pain. Therefore, the words "does not" or "unable to" would...

Seanad: Adoption Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Mar 2009)

Fidelma Healy Eames: At one level I am inclined to agree with the Minister of State in that when a person has been counselled and gone through the assessment process as a prospective adoptive parent, there should be a very good understanding of what is about to be undertaken. In the case of the young mother of baby Ann recently, she clearly did not know the import of what she was embarking on. Ultimately, the...

Seanad: Foster Care: Motion (17 Dec 2008)

Fidelma Healy Eames: I second Senator Fitzgerald's amendment to the motion. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Barry Andrews, to the House. I spoke to him previously on some of these issues when the House debated child abuse. I compliment the Government side on tabling this welcome motion. The Irish Foster Care Association recently called for parents who would take on older children and teenagers. I have...