Reproductive Rights (Amendment) Bill 2026: Second Stage [Private Members]
Dail Éireann — 2026-05-13
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Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (FG), Dún Laoghaire

I am asking the Social Democrats to come and meet NWHIP with me to hear more of the reality. There are not 240 women travelling because of fatal foetal abnormalities. There are some, but there are many women travelling for other reasons because there are different thresholds in the UK and Ireland. Some who are travelling will never meet the threshold in Ireland because the UK threshold is about serious handicap and others. The group of women does not number 240. It is a much smaller number. They are very case specific. Some of them will not be fixed by legislation of this kind. I am asking the Deputies for that meeting and to really get into that detail. We will never be able to fix this for every single situation. That is what I am trying to say. That is practically impossible in this context.

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Sitting date: 2026-05-13