Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Friday, 17 May 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings

11:00 am

Dr. Tony Holohan:

Although it was attributed to me that I had simply said it was only as a consequence of the Supreme Court situation that we were making this provision, there is a second reason, that we simply cannot say the circumstance of a real and substantial risk to a woman's life could never occur as a consequence of suicidal ideation. That is the reason that provision is included in the heads of the Bill. I did say I do not believe it would be prevalent or very common, but I could not say it would never occur.

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