Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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This should not be a big deal. I do not think it is the particular wording. At every single meeting that we have had here, the issue of decriminalisation came up. Virtually every speaker, with maybe a few exceptions, so practically everyone who had varying views on abortion, believe that women and their doctors should not be criminalised for it. Obviously, the Oireachtas when it is legislating is going to define the legal circumstances in which abortion can be carried out. Outside of that however, the activity should not be criminalised. I think we can get agreement on that and write it up in the report. We do not need to vote on any of them. They are all trying to do the same thing.