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- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
John Gilroy: What does this have to do with the amendment we are debating? Let us do our job properly in this House.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
John Gilroy: On a point of order, I ask the Senator to keep the provocation and graphic detail out of his contribution.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
John Gilroy: Some 100,000 people have had the misfortune of having experienced an abortion.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
John Gilroy: We do not want to distress people any further in a most distressing situation. There is an onus on Members to be cognisant of this.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
John Gilroy: Not for me; I am asking the Senator to be conscious that 100,000 women in the country have had abortions.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
John Gilroy: That is ridiculous. We have to keep the debate honest.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
John Gilroy: That is Article 40.3.3°.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
John Gilroy: People have spoken twice on this issue, in two referendums.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
John Gilroy: Oh my God. How could the Senator not know that what he said would be upsetting? It was disgraceful talk.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
John Gilroy: On a point of order, Senator Walsh's voyeurism does not offend me, but it is very offensive to a great number of people.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
John Gilroy: On a point of order, those remarks about the Leader cannot be allowed to stand on the record of this House.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
John Gilroy: He is a disgrace.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
John Gilroy: That is a matter for the party.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
John Gilroy: It is more relevant to section 9, but it probably has some relevance to this section as well. To deny that suicide is not a genuine risk to somebody's health and life, as some speakers appear to do, is to deny the facts of life. I have been a psychiatric nurse for 28 years. I have worked with groups in the community and I am rapporteur to the health committee on suicide prevention. I am...
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
John Gilroy: I want to comment on-----
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
John Gilroy: I have, very briefly, and I want to speak again with the indulgence of the Cathaoirleach. Senator Mullen has eloquently and articulately given a synopsis of my previous contribution. I listened with great care to his eloquence and knowledge of the area. He referred to the threat of suicide. The Bill talks not about the threat of suicide but about the risk of suicide. Any misunderstanding...
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
John Gilroy: We do not understand what the Senator is saying. It is illogical and meaningless. That is why we do not understand it.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
John Gilroy: It does not confer any further rights.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
John Gilroy: It clarifies the existing situation.
- Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)
John Gilroy: It could not possibly say that.