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

It is important to point out that this is a medical responsibility and that it is the clinical call of the doctors. We cannot legislate for that. We are back to being prescriptive and interfering in medical practice and into that dangerous territory into which I do not want to go as a Minister. I know what the reaction of members of medical profession would be. They have to do their job and they are trained to do so and we must trust them. We are back to that and I do not want to get into arguments where we are always thinking of somebody who might abuse the situation and putting in strong notifications to prevention that from happening. We have had a very good debate today and yesterday and, in fact, throughout but there have been times when people have described women as being devious and manipulative in trying to abuse this and doctors as being devious, manipulative and dishonest in abusing it.