Mary Regan
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767 appearances
11 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 12 Sep
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But I think that sort of tug between the Liberal and Conservative wings of Fine Gael
It sort of has been there and, you know, is still there.
But what it highlights is this legislation or this bill will have to go through and rock this committee.
Then it'll come back for either the vote, the Dáil and Seánad to vote on.
And I think the debate is far from over because there's a long way to run on this.
I think what Sinn Féin did right was to be very focused in the bill.
So this is the third time the Dáil has voted on abortion this year.
And neither the previous occasions garnered such debate or such...
attention.
This time, the health spokesperson for Sinn Féin, David Cullinan, he wanted to do just one thing and that was the three-day wait.
He wasn't looking for any sort of further unpicking of the legislation that is there.
And in so doing, he now has a chance for that party to get one of its policies on the legislature.
something that opposition parties rarely achieve.
So if that is achieved, I think that'll be sort of on Sinn Féin's part.
They're doing what their voters maybe ask them to do.
But I think it suits the government parties too that Sinn Féin brought this forward.
It was recommended in the Marie O'Shea report and the Minister for Health, Jennifer Carroll-McNeill, backed the Sinn Féin motion as did the Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael party leaders.
So in many ways...
Maybe the government would have to have brought this onto the agenda at some stage and it might have suited them for Sinn Féin to have brought it onto the agenda from their own party basis.
Yeah, and everything seems very incremental with this government.
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