Dáil debates

Wednesday, 23 May 2018

Leaders' Questions (Resumed)

 

12:15 pm

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

I know that people will vote on Friday, no matter how they decide to vote, in accordance with their conscience and will do what they believe is right based on the information available to them. I also know, however, that many people have been influenced by hearing some of those individual stories such as Kate and Elaine's or stories about young couples who were forced to travel to Liverpool for a compassionate early delivery, something we cannot offer in our hospitals. If there are people who are undecided, and I know many people are still undecided at this point in time, I would ask them to set aside an hour or so this evening or tomorrow evening and think about some of those individual cases because, ultimately, laws are just written in black and white. They are text on a piece of paper but what has to be behind all those laws is individuals - people and families - and how those laws will affect them in practice. I would encourage people to consider some of those real lived experiences before they vote on Friday.

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