Michelle Mulherin (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Regarding representation and given the rarity of this event, would the Minister consider a situation in which the documentation - not a medical assessment, but the paperwork - was handed to a representative of the Attorney General once the certification was done to ensure that everything had been attended to procedurally? By the time a failure is reported to the Minister, the life of an unborn has been terminated. That is too late for the unborn's right to life to be vindicated.