Fidelma Healy Eames (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

In all cases of which I speak, they were given the diagnosis of fatal foetal abnormality. In the latter case, those little children are now six-year-old twins, as she stated, running around in a playground in County Clare. With respect, all cases were given the diagnosis of fatal foetal abnormality. Today is not the day that we will make a decision on this for the reasons that we are told - it is not constitutional. I take Senator Marie-Louise O'Donnell's point, that perhaps some of these matters have been kicked to touch previously but, until it is before us for a decision, some of us need that time.