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THE SEANAD WILL spend almost all of this week debating the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill following its passage through the Dáil last week.
The bill is scheduled for debate today, tomorrow, Wednesday, and Thursday with Friday set aside for several others pieces of legislation include the new Oireachtas inquiries bill in what is a busy week for senators.
Senators will begin debating the second stage of the bill from 3.45pm today with debate resuming at 11.45am tomorrow when the first vote is likely to be held.
The bill will then move to committee stage on Wednesday and Thursday with report and final stages of the legislation scheduled to take place on Monday and Tuesday week.
There is likely to be significant opposition to the legislation among Fianna Fáil senators with just three out of their 14 members in the upper house confirming they would support the legislation including the parties only two female parliamentary party members.
A number of Fine Gael senators are also set to oppose the legislation with Fidelma Healy-Eames confirming her opposition to the bill which legalises abortion in circumstances where there is a risk to the life of a woman, including risk of suicide.
Other Fine Gael senators including Lucinda Creighton’s husband, Paul Bradford, are also thought to be doubtful about supporting the bill.
A number of Labour Party senators, particularly ones based in rural parts of the country, have also expressed reservations about the legislation but the coalition partner’s leader in the Seanad, Ivana Bacik, said last week she expects the bill to pass into law.
She said she was looking forward “to a respectful and reflective debate on its provisions over the coming week, before it is finally passed into law – 21 years after the X case”.
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HypoGLASSaemia
An advertisement for Mars Bars pops up when your blood sugar gets low.
Smart buggers
As reported my me in the 9@9 slot
Any absolutely fantastic idea. As people get older they find it more difficult to feel if they are getting weak. And, again as they get older, they are more susceptible to getting mild infections which causes sugar levels to spike.
Being able to continuously monitor blood sugar levels, without having to literally drive a needle into the tips of your fingers multiple times every day for ever (ouch!), is brilliant.
My mother has been in hospital 3 times last year, for a month or so at a time. She is in there right now actually as she was admitted over Christmas. All because she is finding it difficult to monitor her sugar levels as she gets older, This would improve her life substantially.
Excellent.
This may sound far fetched and a bit sci-fi, but so did a lot of things we take for granted every day now. If these can help diabetics in their day to day lives, and maybe other similar devices may be used to help people with other illnesses then great, where do I sign up.
Would make a huge difference to my life – am a long time type 1 diabetic with variable diagestion due to much needed cancer surgery (dumping syndrome) and my fingers are in bits. This would make a huge difference to my life and that of my young family.
Thats a sweet project they got there
Can they develop ones that don’t make my eyes dry as f*ck?
#justputtinitoutthere
Take fish oils bro
Actually it was Microsoft who developed and funded this originally…
I would take this one very carefully, it hasn’t been proven that the glucose level in your tears is the same as your blood ! And may never been proven either, sound like another gadget from google here …..
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