Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

Is the Taoiseach willing to allow the Irish people the chance to remove a law which is the envy of religious fundamentalists around the world? Was he strutting and posing for liberty in Paris while maintaining women as vessels and incubators at home, alive or dead? Will the Taoiseach hold a raft of referendums in May while refusing to allow people to have their say on the eighth amendment? He said he does not have a mandate, but he can go and get one by having a referendum. There is no time impediment to his holding a referendum to see what the will of the people is at a particular time. That goes for the excuses of the Labour Party as well.

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