Liam Twomey (Wexford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Even though my ethos is pro-life, we need to focus ourselves a little more for the rest of the course of this debate on what we are doing. The Members are wandering all over the place in this debate. I was wondering if there were 120 general practitioners up in the Visitors Gallery, would they be able to work out what we are legislating for here tonight. We need to be far more clear on the way this debate is running.

It would be quite difficult to explain to a patient, unless one was deeply involved in this legislation, what this legislation means. In what the Minister is doing, first and foremost, the focus is to save the life of the baby and the mother, and it is all about the early delivery. It is a completely different ethos to some of the red herrings I have seen thrown into this debate. I hope we re-focus for the rest of the night so that we can understand where this is coming from.

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