Séamus Healy (Tipperary South, Workers and Unemployed Action Group) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the experts and thank them for their presentations. We have received quite a number of presentations and heard a lot of information. In the process we may have forgotten the basics. Am I right that the proposed legislation will be operated on the basis of Article 40.3.3° of the Constitution, which contains a constitutional commitment to the life of the woman and the unborn, on the basis that there is a real and substantial risk to the life, rather than the health, of the woman, that it will be permissible only where the risk can be averted by a termination, and that the woman make the final decision?