James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

These amendments have the effect of making it the responsibility of the Medical Council to decide on the legal circumstances in which a medical procedure to terminate a pregnancy may take place. This is not acceptable. It is the duty of the Government to decide on lawful procedures in these circumstances. Ireland is under a legal obligation to implement the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in A, B, and C v. Ireland, and must put in place a legislative or regulatory regime to provide effective and accessible procedures whereby pregnant women can establish whether they are entitled to a lawful abortion, in accordance with Article 40.3.3° of the Constitution, as interpreted by the Supreme Court in the X case. I cannot, therefore, accept these amendments.

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