Robert Dowds (Dublin Mid West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I welcome our visitors and I thank them for their input. One thing the medical experts cried out for yesterday was clarity in the law in terms of their treating a woman in cases in which they believed a termination was required. One of the points made, particularly by the master of the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street, was that in many circumstances it is almost impossible to know exactly the extent to which a woman's life is at risk when the practitioners have to intervene. They cried out for legislation to protect them in their work. Given the constitutional constraints within which we operate at the moment is it possible to draft legislation that would deal adequately with the situation that they want rectified?