Jim Walsh (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I compliment both contributors for their honesty. The session is enhanced by their differing perspectives, something we did not have at this morning's session. The notion was canvassed this morning that we could legislate for foetal abnormalities without the need for a referendum. I concede this is a very difficult area and a situation with which most of us have a great deal of sympathy. Mention was made of the failure to legislate. In fact, it was a decision made by successive Governments not to legislate for the very good reason that suicide was very problematic from the point of view of how it might be exploited.

Given the separation of powers between the Judiciary and the Oireachtas, is the Oireachtas obliged to legislate in respect of specific Supreme Court decisions?