Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú) | Oireachtas source

An unborn child is a living individual human being. He or she is as human as the Minister of State, as alive as him and as individual as him, and that is according to science. Under the Government, however, late-term abortions are being carried out on unborn children and pain relief is not being used.

On any level, humanitarian basis and understanding of society, how can the Minister of State stand by this? When we put amendments to the Bill when it was rushed through in 2018, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, the Labour Party and Sinn Féin voted against amendments to ensure that pain relief was included in this regime. I put a question to the Fianna Fáil Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, only a week ago asking him to ensure that pain relief would be afforded to children when they are being aborted in this country. Deputy Stephen Donnelly, the Fianna Fáil Minister for Health, refused.

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