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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