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Seanad: Commencement Matters: Registration of Deaths (3 Feb 2016)

Jim Walsh: ...áilte roimh an Aire Stáit go dtí an Teach inniu. Go n-éirí go mór leis sa toghchán romhainn. I welcome the Minister. I would like to start by expressing again our sympathy for the Enright and Walsh families on what was a real tragedy, with the loss of a wife, a daughter and a granddaughter, and a very traumatic event for the family. We covered this...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Registration of Deaths (3 Feb 2016)

Jim Walsh: I know from talking with members of the family that they were appreciative of the manner in which the Minister of State approached this sensitive and traumatic situation in which they found themselves. It was a car crash and the mother was obviously driving the car. She was totally in the right and was driving on the correct side of the road when the other car veered across and crashed into...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)

Jim Walsh: On the section, this is to do with orders under the Family Law (Maintenance of Spouses and Children) Act. I take a particularly strong view on the issue of maintenance. Unfortunately, as we debated earlier, it is women who are left literally holding the baby and taking full responsibility for the rearing of the child and for all the costs attached to that and it is time for a greater...

Seanad: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (24 Sep 2014)

Jim Walsh: ...amendment is not being accepted. I appreciate the dilemma raised by him, which we briefly touched on yesterday. In the short time we have had it has been difficult for him to obtain legal advice and examine any unintended consequences that may occur and that we cannot identify at this stage. The case for doing this is compelling. As the Minister of State correctly pointed out, the...

Seanad: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (24 Sep 2014)

Jim Walsh: I move amendment No. 1: In page 6, between lines 38 and 39, to insert the following: " "stillborn child" means a child who, at birth, weighs not less than 500 grammes or has a gestational age of not less than 24 weeks and shows no sign of life, and "stillbirth" shall be construed accordingly. These also include an unborn child who dies in the womb of the mother due to death of the mother but...

Seanad: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (17 Sep 2014)

Jim Walsh: I move amendment No. 2: In page 21, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following:“(3) Where the pregnant mother of an unborn child dies and that death results in the death of the unborn child, the Superintendent Registrar in whose registration area where the death occurred, must register the death of that unborn child.”.”.An addition to that amendment would be that...

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

Jim Walsh: The medical procedure is the abortion procedure, which targets the life of the unborn baby. I am referring to two experts in the field, each one coming from a different perspective on the fundamental issue of either being pro-choice or pro-life. I am referring to their conclusion. It challenges all of us but particularly those who are pro-choice, as to where they stand on the spectrum....

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

Jim Walsh: ...it was numbered for Committee Stage, every amendment will have been ignored by the Minister. He is in a rush to introduce legislation that will not advance the protection of women in any shape or form and will probably have an adverse affect on many women who will have abortions under this legislation. Obviously we all know the effect that it will have on unborn babies. With regard to...

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

Jim Walsh: The Bill allows all of those procedures because they are simply not circumscribed. I want to put the following on the record, I did it the last day, I did it during the health committee hearings and I would do it again. I agree with Senator Colm Burke that there is a great commitment to the life of the mother and the baby here. We have a proud tradition in the two patient model that...

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

Jim Walsh: I am glad the Minister took on board the question and that he sought clarification from, presumably, one of the masters of the hospital on that issue. I note that the Minister said "is" - in other words the present tense. I fully accept that in Ireland today any procedure that is done is to treat the mother and the mother's life threatening condition and, therefore, an indirect consequence...

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

Jim Walsh: I find that an appalling but unsurprising reply from the Minister. As part of the untruths that have been perpetrated on the nation and members of his own party for the past number of months, presumably scripted for him by people in his Department, it sanitises what is happening. He failed to say clearly what type of medical procedures will be allowed. His failure clearly indicates that...

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

Jim Walsh: ...can we get that this barbaric practice will not be allowed to happen, as it is in many countries where abortion is available? If it is allowed to happen, surely it would be an inhumane act, and the pain inflicted on the unborn baby would be absolutely appalling. Although I support the amendments, I have gone a step back with my amendment. Senator Norris and others may have picked up...

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

Jim Walsh: The Minister has been at pains over many months, as has the Taoiseach, to tell us that this Bill is about the protection of both mother and baby. Those comments are either the truth or they are lies. They cannot be both. I am prepared to accept the Minister at his word, to accept that he believes what he is saying is true. That is why I tabled amendment No. 4. The medical procedures...

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

Jim Walsh: ...Minister should then have no difficulty accepting my amendment. I left it at that because I felt there was no need to press the case further. I am doing so now because of the Minister's response and, with respect, I am entitled to do so. I am concerned that a situation will arise where a physically healthy mother presents with a physically healthy baby and is certified as having...

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

Jim Walsh: ...to inform ourselves. I attended the National Women's Council meeting which heard from those ladies who had gone through the terrible situation of having pregnancies with fatal foetal abnormalities and travelled to England for abortions. Some things did not impress me, but some did hit me hard. I was not impressed by the fact that several people - perhaps they were from the National...

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

Jim Walsh: ...me where in the Bill there is protection outlined for the unborn, if this is the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill? We all know that in pregnancy there are two lives involved, that of the mother and that of the unborn. My understanding is, as Senator Bacik stated on the radio this morning, that most abortions occur in the first trimester. I agree with her. I cannot see mentioned...

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

Jim Walsh: ...I would be debating the most fundamental right, the right to life. With more sadness than anything else, I rise to make this contribution. My guiding principle throughout my life, in politics and outside it, has been that human life is inviolate from conception to natural death. Interrupt it anywhere along the continuum and the rest of that life is obliterated. A mother's life must be...

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

Jim Walsh: ...head 3, he states consideration should be given to the possibility that termination might need to be carried out in a private institution. Could that include Marie Stopes? With regard to head 6 and the point made by Senator Bacik, when the psychiatric personnel were before us they actually made the point that the appropriate treatment for somebody who is suicidal would be to take them...

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

Jim Walsh: I wish to put my questions first to the Irish Medical Council representatives. Why do they feel the desire to merge heads 2 and 4? Deputy Kelleher referred to the guidelines which cover the risk of suicide. I assume the IMC monitors its guidelines, so what do the records show with regard to terminations for suicidality since 1992? Also in that regard, does the IMC have records on women...

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

Jim Walsh: As regards a mother presenting at 17, 18, 19 or 20 weeks - just short of viability - what is the IOG's view with regard to the need for medical psychiatric treatment for that lady over a number of weeks to carry her through, as one would do with any other patient who was not pregnant, to the stage where she could safely deliver that baby? I would put that question to the IMO as well, whose...