Colm Keaveney (Galway East, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Section 9 provides that two psychiatrists may find that a woman's life is at risk from suicide and an abortion is required as a treatment. That standard seems to exceed the standard provided in the Mental Health Act. Will the Minister indicate how the Bill will be compatible with the Mental Health Act? Will he assure us, in light of his public utterance that the section will only apply to a handful of women, that circumstances will not arise in which a woman will be sectioned under the Mental Health Act for the purposes of securing an intervention, as set out in the provisions of that Act?