#OireachtasTV – Leaders’ Questions have started in the #Dáil – watch proceedings LIVE here #Seeforyourself – Tuesday, 19 Feb 2019 https://t.co/An9kvzpIQr
— Oireachtas News (@OireachtasNews) February 19, 2019
Solidarity TD Ruth Coppinger (top) speaking in the Dáil last month
This afternoon.
At 2pm.
Leaders’ Questions will get under way at the Dáil.
Dublin West Solidarity TD Ruth Coppinger has said she will be raising issues which women have contacted her about in relation to accessing abortion services.
Watch Dáil proceedings live here
Previously: “Her Words To Me Were:’This Is Not What I Voted For'”
UPDATE:
Ruth Coppinger raising the cases of women denied abortions for medical reasons (in similar vein to the Coombe case she raised last month). Offers detail of one case with only a 15% prospect of safe delivery; as she was beyond 12 weeks she couldn’t access termination here
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) February 19, 2019
Varadkar reluctant to comment on individual cases but does point out that the Oireachtas drew a distinction between allowing abortion in cases of fatal abnormality, versus those of *severe* abnormalities or conditions causing disability
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) February 19, 2019