Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I sincerely thank all Deputies, regardless of their perspective, who contributed to the Second Stage debate on the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018. We have had a good debate. I resent hearing people imply that we are rushing this. Anybody who wanted to speak on the Bill had the opportunity to speak. Some who said last night that we were rushing this did not use the entire slot available to them. After 35 years of the eighth amendment and the damage it has done to countless women, their families and society, and providing adequate time for everybody to make their views known on what has been a wide-ranging Second Stage debate, I think this has been-----

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