Mattie McGrath (Tipperary South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am sorry. I am talking about amendment No. 48. Others are well able to stray from the amendments, so I can stray a small bit as well. The Minister's script was 13 minutes long. He mentioned that he was willing to stay all night tonight, but he could not stay that day. What was the big hurry that day? Why did he not stay to listen to the specialists? They came in from all faculties and gave their opinion freely and were questioned robustly.

We are rated as the fifth safest country in this area. One would not think that if one was to listen to people in here and people outside, but we are. God help us, it was so sad what happened to Savita, but it has been proven that what happened was due to simple neglect and mismanagement. The people in that hospital have been subjected to awful abuse. The issue has been hijacked to further the aims of I do not know what in these amendments. Amendment No. 72, as I said-----

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