Rónán Mullen (Independent) | Oireachtas source

There was a lot of talk for long enough about why people thought it was inappropriate to have laws prohibiting abortion in the Constitution. Now it seems that every time the Minister refers to having been given some kind of instruction by the people, which he was not given, he wants to constitutionalise. We are being invited to believe that if the Government in any way rowed back from its very irresponsible and unjust heads of legislation, the Minister would somehow be in breach of a mandate given to him by the people. Only a very incompetent or untruthful person would hold to that statement. I invite the Minister to reflect on his position.