Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Will the Minister of State agree that the ramifications of the Supreme Court's judgment need to be incorporated into primary legislation? We cannot leave it to case law to determine this matter or to set a precedent. There is a salutary lesson for me in what is going on in another jurisdiction in leaving things to precedent. It is important that the judgment in the Corbally case be legislated for. I do not believe that has yet been done in primary legislation. It was a landmark judgment and recognised as such by members of the medical and legal professions. I do not understand why it has not been incorporated into primary legislation.