Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 3 July 2013
Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health
Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed)
1:45 pm
Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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Yes, on the amendment. Effectively, the Minister's amendment covers all of this issue. The problems of prematurity exist until approximately 37 weeks so here is the issue. We know that the diagnosis of suicidality is hit and miss. In fact, there is a very low rate of successful diagnosis of whether a person would commit suicide or not.