Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I do not have much more to add to what I said previously but I want to pick up on a few points made by Deputies.

Deputy Wallace referred to the possibility that 30% of people in prison are wrongly convicted. I do not know if that is true. I certainly hope it is not, but a miscarriage of justice can be reversed, and people can be released. Terminations are not reversible. One of the reasons we do not have the death penalty in this country is exactly for that reason.

Deputies Wallace and Coppinger suggested that we pass the Bill and allow "someone to appeal it to the Supreme Court". That is not the way our Constitution works. Someone cannot just go to the Supreme Court. They need to have locus standi.

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