Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I profoundly disagree. The HSE has issued new guidelines in recent times, discontinuing the use of the terms "fatal foetal" and "incompatible with life" and using softer terminology. I have brought forward a Private Members' Bill on the issue but the HSE has acquiesced already, with more compassionate and sensitive language on pregnant mothers or couples presented with such diagnoses. There is a clear conflict with what the committee has stated and the quotations Ms Hoctor has given from the United Nations. I do not accept her answers and I totally discount her answer to Deputy Durkan's questions to the effect that no life exists before birth.