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PROPOSALS ARE BEING drawn up to consider the “nature and scope” of rolling out free contraception.
Addressing the Dáil during a debate on the referendum bill today, Health Minister Simon Harris said work is under way to consider how a free contraception service might work and what the introduction of such a scheme would involve.
“This work has so far established that provision of free access to contraception methods, which are currently limited to those with eligibility through the Primary Care Reimbursement Services, would require enabling primary legislation,” said Harris.
He said work to consider the costs and other implications is continuing within his department.
The minister has established a group, under the chairmanship of the chief medical officer, to address the recommendations and formulate “an effective and comprehensive response” to the issues raised by the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment.
“If our underlying principle is that abortion should be safe, legal, and rare, then we must do all we can to reduce the number of crisis pregnancies and to support women in every way. This will be the focus of the proposals I will bring back to government in around a months time,” said Harris.
While he said the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment were focused on the discussion and recommendations on the issue of abortion, it also raised issues such as free access to contraception, comprehensive sex education, obstetric care and counselling.
The minister said that he will return to those issues in the coming weeks and will be seeking approval for a series of measures to further support women and improve access to counselling, contraception and perinatal care.
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good a bit of justice for a change.
@ktsiwot: god bless ya.
@ktsiwot: is it justice though? I see 1 lad got 12 mths suspended for 2 yrs and another got 2 yrs suspended for 2 yrs. If they knew what was going on, which they obviously did by being found guilty, then surely more severe sentences were warranted. Just an observation.
@ktsiwot: pavey point please comment!
Again the silence from Pavee Point is telling, if it’s free houses & healthcare they’re jumping up & down shouting from the rooftops but now there’s it a quote to be had.
@Matt Donovan: It happened in the UK to UK residents. What’s it to do with Pavee Point?
@Meekus: culture boss. When it suits them.
@Meekus: their part of their tribe
@Matt Donovan: they have comments in the Indo.
@Meekus: pavee point are there buddies on the other side of the pond
@Matt Donovan: Pavee Point? Isn’t it this lobby group for inbred criminals of a certain ethnic minority?
@Matt Beaumont: o yes it is
Looks like none of them got as much time as one of their victims. They should at least have gotten 26 years each.
I hope their assets are seized to compensate their victims.
There’s not a chance the Guards would go after them in this country. Firstly the Guards are afraid of them, secondly the PC identity politics brigade would be all over it. One thing you can say in the Brits favour is they’re not as stupidly soft and naive as the Irish.
@Fred Jensen: Who are the “PC identity politics brigade”???
@Fred Jensen: Silence from Pavee Point and the usual manipulators
@Fred Jensen: what about the big raid in Holyhill Cork recently with over 50 guards at a halting site??
@EdmundOrlando:
And how many were arrested and how long were their jail sentences? Thought so…
@Fred Jensen: the Brits allowed Muslim sex abuse gangs beat, molest and rape white children because they were too PC to prevent it.
@Fred Jensen: well said
@Fred Jensen: exactly. a friend of mine was dropping his kids off to the local swimming pool in Ennis a few months back. He had 3 kids in the front of his van. In a seat meant for 2. He was caught in the swimming pool car park by a patrol car. As the garda was dealing with him a van belonging to a traveller pulled up along side and 8 kids jumped out from the front. When he questioned the garda about this the garda responded saying we dont deal with those people! meaning they can do what they want. but we have to obey the law to the letter!
@EdmundOrlando: big deal
And they constantly throw the “discrimination” card whenever it suits them.
Probably eleven less in Rathkeale this Christmas.
@Michael Reilly: the Christmas has been ruineed!
Be thankful they were in the UK, if they were before the Irish courts they wouldn’t get 26 years if you combined their collective sentence.
Another silver lining is there will be eleven extra disabled spaces available in Lincolnshire tomorrow.
Happy days for those poor vulnerable victims who finally got free from their evil claws. Hats off to all who gave so much to get this case over the line.
@Brian Fitzgerald: if only we export the rest of them to the U.K.
Its our culture boss.
They said on the news that some of the money was spent on cosmetic surgery. I’m having trouble figuring out which on got it.
@Ron North: *which one got it
@Ron North: Was thinking that myself ! A lot of them fell out of the ugly tree ,,, definitely a case for a refund here.
@Ron North: after generations of inbreeding they probably all needed plastic surgery!
@Ciaran105: that’s what’s happening if you marry your sister!
It is a great pity that Hard Labour is no longer part of the sentence,it would be very appropriate here.
@Paul Connolly:
Exactly. A ggod taste of their own medicine.
@Paul Connolly: Exactly, have them building houses and roads.
@Paul Connolly: these inbred mutants wouldn’t last an hour working!
But it’s tradition for them to take advantage of vulnerable people. Why can’t everybody just leave the travellers alone. To do whatever the fck they want, like in Ireland..
Throw away the key
So does the sob story, hard upbringing defence not work in England? Thats traveller discrimination if ever i seen it.
The Hills Have Eyes
Ethnic minority me arse
@Eddie Byrne: See what happens when they get the upper hand and we are supposed to feel guilty about the way they are treated.
@Eddie Byrne: To be honest I find it difficult to see how these guys are anything but Irish .As for these particular specimens… some crimes are beyond redemption and slavery is one of them. The people they abused will never be the same.
@Lucy: sadly very true Lucy
@Mick Murphy: It might be easier if we could say they’re not really Irish and that they’re something different but unfortunately we have to accept that our fellow Irishmen did this…. and it’s probably all our faults in a way for allowing generations of certain families to skirt the law…. It can’t continue…
@Lucy: They are not Irish! Ethnic minority with diminished intellectual capacity and incapability of acceptable social behaviour due to 1000 years of inbreeding! About as Irish as Cascarino!
How come Wayne got away,probably the head honcho
@decky smith: I’m guessing he gave them loads of information
@decky smith: there was a mini seen speeding away.
Wait for it. Free the Lincoln Eleven!
Justice at last it’s great to see these people behind bars for the rest of there lives .
@Kevin: If only .
In the UK they are eligible for parole when they serve 1/3 of their sentence!
The ring leader got 9 he could be out in 3!
Here they serve 3/4 of their sentence!
Eitherway they got off light in comparison with 26 yrs of hard labour and institutionalised brutality, which they meted out to their victims!
Don’t understand why they are called travellers. They never move anywhere. It would be great if they would move on though.
@Conor Cronin: I wouldn’t wish them on any country.
Disgusting.. disgusting disgusting. what kind of animals would do this to humanities most vulnerable, I suspect the same people breaking into our elderly folks homes late at night terrifying them in rural Ireland.
@Dáithí Ó Raghallaigh: And they got a standing ovation in the Dáil
@Dáithí Ó Raghallaigh: inbred animals
@marg fitzgerald: who from?
@Matt Beaumont: problem in modern Ireland we are afraid of insulting pavee point and their warriors
Disgusting, horrid family and despite the absurd newly bestoed Ethnic recognition given to a certain section of our society, the British and indeed Irish media are at pains to describe this ghastly family as “IRISH TRAVELLER FAMILY”, makes my blood boil.
@Joseph Dempsey: not Irish. Different ethnic tribe. Thank god.
@Mairtin Cathbhar: Nope. They’re Irish, but ethnically different. Like any other Irish person who enjoys crime and cruelty. That’s culture. That’s ethnic.
@Cat Agatha: as Irish as Tony Cascarino! Inbred skum!
@Cat Agatha: are “Criminals” ; “Spongers” ; “Thieves” ethic minorities also?
Padraig Nally showed how to deal with them.
My big fat prison sentence….has a ring to it..
These people who were slaves can and should go after their money go after their wealth
@Alan Scott: I like the way you think ,,,, a special kind of hurt £££
:)
Vermin
I wish to express my outrage of this egregious display of victimisation against a hard working and righteous ethnic community. These ungrateful homeless people were provided with gainful employment and shelter and this is how they thank us?
Padraig Nally showed how to deal with them
Trash.
Slavery comes in different shapes & forms, what about the people working their asses off & just about able to put food on the table!
@Colette Kearns: Bit of a stretch to compare the two don’t you think ? Unless your boss is beating you regularly…. or you’re working in a call center…
@Lucy thats why I used the term “Different”!
Wow ! Fair play to the judge and the police for this result. This utter thug extended family, masquerading as Irish citizens, have been exposed as filth !! Shame on them and their utter , utter contempt for those poor victims. Travellers are a law unto themselves, and this is the most perverse case of abuse I have had the displeasure of reviewing.
I hope this sort of thing isn’t happening in Ireland.
@Diogenes: Well,difficult to say,but some entrepreneurial persons who may be distant relations of those characters being discussed,actually have hired hard working foreign nationals for official house improvement schemes here.Of course all may well be above board,and if so, ’tis surely progress.
Without fear or prejudice…..
Not long enough
Similar exploitation could well be practised here too.
Those pictures all look like the same person doing silly faces. Closely related?
Don’t you disrespect my culture!
@Cat Agatha: your culture is what I really would like to know what you call culture
Knew the wit would be good in comments, hope the vulnerable human beings that were enslaved by the dregs of society are compensated by their wealth
Delighted for the smelly beasts, hopefully they’ll get the shite knocked out of them,paver point will no doubt open up a sub office in the uk
@billy Dorney: pavee point
I dont think any of that crew will need chastity pants in prison.
They should get as much money back off these vile creatures as they should sell everything they own to pay back the victims you can be sure their is plenty of money hanging around there.
With Brexit on the horizon will we getting all these travellers living in the UK sent back to us ,?
Human nature, regardless or race, ethnicity, culture or religion is variable. There is good and bad in all identifiable groups.
@Fiona deFreyne: Aw. Isn’t that lovely. Let’s not forget that Nazis and Stalinists were just expressing their culture too?
@Fiona deFreyne: Aw. Oogy woogy. Miggy moggy. Piggetty wiggety poo. Marshmallows and magical elves. A sunshine world of wonder.
Everyone please, this ethnic minority do not engage in theft, violence, murder, rape, female assault, tax evasion, intimidation, severe environmental damage, aggression, public disorder, fighting, attacking elderly, brawls, weapons, slavery
There is no connection to any of the above. What they need is a rights group like pavee point because they are good people that have had their names tarnished with baseless claims of the above.
They should have gotten much more.
The one problem I have with this story is it describes the crime as slavery. slavery does not exist in Europe, they are not guilty of slavery.
Pacer Point a first for them.
Pavers..whats gone wrong you normally defend them….
@TheoWolfe: trial in UK got it right….slavery it was!
Careful what you write here…. John “chip on his shoulder” Connors might read it and make some excuse.
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