Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 September 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution

Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Engagement with Ms Justice Mary Laffoy, Citizens' Assembly

1:30 pm

Ms Justice Mary Laffoy:

Yes, it did. The problem is we are not just talking about the female and that is the issue there it seems to me. It obviously was not pressed but it was the subject of some debate now that Ms Finegan mentions it. I do not think the citizens asked to vote on it.