Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 3 July 2013

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed)

1:45 pm

Photo of Éamon Ó CuívÉamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is what the psychiatrists have said. The issue is, with the Bill, a large number of adults could likely present to a future committee. They will say that they were perfectly healthy babies but because of the construction of the Bill they are seriously disabled as they were prematurely born due to an assessment of risk. We know from many psychiatrists that this is something that they cannot access with any accuracy. The issue is not due to a lack of term limits. When one thinks of these people as adults one will suddenly realise the enormity of the decision that we are about to make here.

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