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Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013): Denis Naughten: ...we must legislate for the X case. That is not the case and a number of examples have been given. I outlined one example on Second Stage. The Government parties made the argument well on the issue of blasphemy. We introduced legislation at the time, which we knew could never be implemented, because there is a blatant reference in the Constitution that we must provide for a law of...
Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2013): Denis Naughten: .... Law is not always logical. Usually the problem arises with historic law, not with new law. I remind Members of the controversy in this House and in committee in 2009 on the issue of blasphemy. Members will recall that blasphemy is specifically provided for in the Constitution. Bizarrely, since the adoption of the Constitution in 1937, it took until 1961 for such a law to be...

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