Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Obviously, this is part of a group of amendments. The amendments put forward by Deputy Seamus Healy and supported by a number of us fall if the Minister's is accepted.

This really gets to a very important aspect of the Bill. This is far to onerous a bar to jump over for women whose lives may be threatened because of suicidal ideation, and we do not see the justification for having three doctors. If in other cases in which one is being certified for a mental health condition one psychiatrist would be all that was required, why in the particular case in which suicidal ideation, a mental health condition, happens to be linked to the question of a termination of pregnancy should there be an extra hoop to jump through in order to prove that there is a serious risk to someone's life? It seems there are no medical grounds for this.