Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I said at the outset that we should vote on every single recommendation. I do not have an issue with that. However, if we are now trying to link reason 13 to a gestational period which is in the Citizens' Assembly recommendation then I do object to that. We have not done that with any of the other recommendations. We have voted just on the reason. We have not taken a decision. If that was the case then we could go back through the Citizens' Assembly recommendations and start voting on the gestational time limits for each recommendation. That is not what we have done. If there is a vote, it should be just on the question that it would be lawful to access a termination of pregnancy with no restriction as to reasons.