Mattie McGrath (Tipperary South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I wish to place on the record of the House a matter of the utmost importance in respect of the constitutional validity of the proposed Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013. It has been brought to my attention that the Oireachtas has no right to vote on a Bill that contains provisions that have been put to the Irish people in referendums and which they in a sovereign exercise rejected. The Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013 contains two provisions that were put to the Irish people in a referendum in 2002 and that the people rejected.

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