Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2024-02-27
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Rónán Mullen (IND), National University of Ireland

I am finishing now. The Government is pushing legislation at the behest of an invisible few. It does not have the slightest respect for the electorate. If the Minister did, he would be giving us chapter and verse. He would be showing us the Government's own studies as to whether this was in fact a problem. He would be bringing forward evidence of his careful consultation with the Garda and civil and healthcare authorities, but he has done none of this. He is the one who is being brazen, coming in here today without even giving us the courtesy of a direct quotation from any one person, and without showing any evidence that he has tried to see if there is another side to this. He has brought forward this legislation, which restricts free speech in the way that it does.

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Sitting date: 2024-02-27