Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Zika virus was there long before the Olympic Games and will be there long after the Olympic Games, whether people travel to Brazil or not. I am not qualified medically to give people advice on the extent of the Zika virus. While the Deputy makes a very strong case, in 1983 the eighth amendment was introduced into the Constitution by the Irish people and it was a guarantee of the right to life of the unborn. There were three referenda after it and, in each of those referenda, the people, not any party, decided to keep the eighth amendment in the Constitution.

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