Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I agree there could be a certain similarity with the US because it has a constitution and we have a constitution as well, apart altogether from the hospital agreement and constitution. Will Dr. Boylan pick out a single issue or item that would safeguard against the issues he is concerned about and protect and preserve the full extent of the available and necessary services and research? This is where we go back to the interpretation of "necessary". I want to ask this question. Are there situations where a patient can present in any place, that is, a maternity hospital or anywhere else, where a proposal by the patient may not be acceptable medically or ethically, setting aside altogether all the religious parts of it? I can think of one or two.