Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Of all of the promised legislation before this House, the abortion legislation has the most unequivocal democratic mandate from the people of this country. It is also has a very definite timeline to make abortion facilities available to women in this country. A minority of people, however, seem to wish to frustrate the democratic wishes of the people in this country, regardless of the consequences for Irish women, and there is now a real danger that legislation will not pass in time. I want to know a number of things. Amendments are normally given a very strict deadline but some have now been accepted from this minority for the Order Paper today. They were debated yesterday but are being brought in again today. I want to know if they are in order. We are never allowed to do that.

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