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 Sharon Finegan:
As a point of clarity - Deputy Clare Daly asked about this earlier - decriminalisation was one issue and the second was the recognition and protection of the female reproductive rights and autonomy, so it did come through in that ancillary exercise that we got the citizens to do but did not come through expressly when we were discussing the ballot paper.