Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I support the very reasonable requests put forward by colleagues in respect of this very important amendment. It is very reasonable and I do not know how anyone could have grounds to object to it. I sincerely hope the Minister can accede to this amendment. It is important from the point of view that everything is stressful enough, there is enough of pain and suffering in the termination process so the least that could be done is to try to ease the pain where possible and practicable. I fully support the amendment.

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