Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Supreme Court already made a decision on this. It came to the conclusion that on balance it had to make a decision and it made the decision given the evidence that was made available and what might be likely to happen in similar cases. That is always the case. The decision was right. I totally disagree with the people who have said again and again that the Supreme Court was wrong. Even some of the judges reviewed the situation in the aftermath. At the time the court made the decision on the basis of the evidence presented to it and had no option but to do that and it did the right thing. I appeal to the Members please to remember the consequences if we go wrong on this issue.

A woman, who could be the mother of other children, might well be condemned to death because we saw fit to put in place a provision which could dictate circumstances in that regard.

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