Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 10 January 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children
Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland
12:40 pm
Ms Caroline Simons:
In respect of suicide, the bottom line, which is very much appreciated by people on the pro-choice advocacy side of this issue, is that legislation must include suicide because of the X case decision. One cannot excise the suicide element. That is a fact, they know this and consequently, if they seek legislation, they wish to leave in suicide. As for the reason we are concentrating on it, as the medics will tell one - members have heard this abundantly clearly over the last couple of days - it is not ever the only and is not ever a treatment for suicidality. As for Senator Crown's question - if he has finished looking at Twitter - I should say to him-----
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