Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----the eighth amendment, and quite legitimately. Those of us who are in the minority now can represent that minority of 33% and continue to try to persuade people that human life should be preserved. It is our right and we should be respected, just as in 1983, 1989 or any other time, I never said that people did not have the right not to fight on to upturn it because the people had spoken. In fact, I said the exact opposite.

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