Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I will be brief because most of the debate has been on expenses. It has wandered to other areas and no amendments on section 6 concern expenses. If we were all to make decisions about how our taxes were spent, I am not sure we would have what we now see as a cohesive society. That is an issue for Government. If I was to decide, as an individual, how my taxes were spent, people would not like the choices. That is everyone's position .

The Bill deals with women whose lives are at risk. They are going to die if they do not have the procedure. If, Senator Healy Eames, someone who is here on holiday, who is a foreign national or who does not have residency status arrives at a hospital in that condition, each and every one of our doctors would take in that person and treat her in the same way as if she was as fully fledged Irish citizen. The only thing I can do is have ultimate trust in it.

I spend most of my time in this Chamber talking about suicide. Some 500 people die by suicide every year and I think it is an underestimate. Is the Senator telling me that a woman, just because she is pregnant, cannot be suicidal? I do not believe it.