Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 21 May 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed)

1:35 pm

Mr. Frank Callanan:

I was going to take up that point about regulation. It is not clear under what legislation it would be provided. One would then have a further set of arguments. A different set of legal principles in addition to constitutional law would apply concerning regulation. There does not seem to be any merit in the suggestion that one could proceed by regulation, rather than legislation.