Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Amendment No. 56 is the last to which I will speak. I will be pressing the amendment. I concur with much of what has been said by previous speakers. This is a profound moment for the Oireachtas and for the State. This is the most barbaric section - the suicide clause - that has been put before the House since the foundation of the State. I was in the Nutley wing of St. Vincent's Hospital at lunch time to visit a friend on St. Anne's ward. I had time to read at the back of the nurses' station a notice to the effect that they strive to provide care based on the best available medical research. To paraphrase my good friend, Deputy Mathews, who often talks about the banking difficulties, I can understand how the last Government got the financial crisis and bank guarantee wrong based on the information it had. I cannot understand this Government, which has the correct information in front of it, making an incorrect decision.

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