Rónán Mullen (Independent) | Oireachtas source

People with these conditions - I do not use the term foetal abnormalities of the kind you describe but use the term "life-limiting conditions" - qualify as a category of persons with disabilities.

Second, there is the reality that in some cases a diagnosis can be faulty. There are people, such as Martin and Sinéad McBreen, who some of us would have liked the committee to have heard, who received a different story to what the reality turned out to be. There are also the fears of people that there is a culture in this world where doctors, instead of saying they will help and support people, as well as providing perinatal hospice facilities, abandon people to the cold logic of choice. In turn, it creates a world where more and more people will feel that such babies are not to be accorded a legal and social welcome. It is difficult and harrowing. We can offer people something much better by saying we will accompany them and give them every love and support but that we will also honour the very sick child until their natural end.