James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The amendments proposed by Deputy Seamus Healy and some other amendments which I have dealt with already apply throughout the Bill and would add additional wording in respect of the nature of the risk to indicate that while it must be real and substantial, it does not need to immediate or inevitable. The amendments are unnecessary because section 8 provides for circumstances where the risk to the pregnant woman is immediate and, therefore, by default it is addressed in sections 7 and 9. I, therefore, urge-----