Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)

Section 27(6) addresses the Senator's concerns. It reads as follows:

Subsections (1) to (5) apply to the stillbirth of a child as they apply to the birth of a child and, accordingly, references in those subsections to birth or births shall be construed as including references to stillbirth or stillbirths, respectively.

What the Senator is seeking in section 13 is included in section 27.