Eugene Murphy (Roscommon-Galway, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I have a very brief point to make. I was not going to say this, but over the past couple of weeks I spoke to the Minister privately about different parts of this legislation. I like to be honest. On every occasion I spoke to him, he gave me time. He explained things to me as late as today. We need to speak to the amendments. We are all trying to get solutions here and do the right thing from the perspective of our own conscience.

I would like the Minister to give us more clarification on the medical guidelines. I reiterate that neither I nor any of my colleagues would do anything that would damage women's health. We should all be honest and honourable. I will not publicly run down the Minister because every time I approached him he tried to explain things to me.

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