Fidelma Healy Eames (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

On the pain issue, I am grateful for the Minister's answer. I will be happy to supply the Minister with the information I have and will try to do so this evening in the course of the debate but simply need to get a break to obtain it. In a final question on the pain issue, can instrumental procedures be used after 12 weeks?

I also have three other amendments in this grouping, namely, amendments Nos. 22, 28 and 41, all of which relate to the same issue. I must make a small correction to amendment No. 22, which should read as:

In page 9, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following:“(5) Where the medical practitioner believes in his or her reasonable opinion that the unborn child is capable of surviving outside the womb with appropriate medical support, that that medical practitioner, where practicable, shall deliver the unborn and take all necessary measures to sustain the life of the born infant.".

This is instead of the wording, "sustain the life of the unborn infant".