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CLARE DALY HAS said that Government backbenchers will vote against her Bill allowing for terminations in cases of fatal foetal abnormalities like “nodding donkeys”.
The independent TD said the Taoiseach will “frogmarch” in Fine Gael and Labour deputies to shoot down the Bill, which is being voted on after 5pm today.
Daly called on Enda Kenny to publish the advice given to him by the Attorney General Máire Whelan, in which she describes the Bill as unconstitutional.
Kenny said the AG’s advice is never published, and he would not be making an exception in this case.
During Leaders’ Questions this afternoon, the Taoiseach said he was aware there are many “tragic” cases, but he doesn’t own the Constitution.
He told Daly:
You don’t own the Constitution, Deputy Daly, nor do I. You can’t change the Constitution, nor can I.
The Technical Group member took exception to this, stating: “How dare you have the arrogance to interpret the Constitution?,” adding that only the courts can do this.
Daly said she has received advice from 43 legal experts about the Bill, noting that Whelan could be incorrect.
She said that current legislation condemns women carrying babies with fatal foetal abnormalities to “the lonely journey, most likely to Liverpool, surrounded by tourists and businessmen while the bottom falls out of their world”.
Daly added that these women and their partners receive the remains of their children “in a jiffy bag and a DHL van”.
Daly said opinion polls show most Irish people want this type of legislation enacted, adding that Kenny is a hypocrite if he doesn’t arrange a referendum on the issue.
Her choice of words was described as “most unparliamentary” by a heckler.
TheJournal Politics / TwitterDaly: What you've done is a cop out. How do you justify that before Xmas you voted against 8th amendment bill?
— TheJournal Politics (@TJ_Politics) February 10, 2015
The Labour parliamentary party is meeting this afternoon to discuss the Bill, with some members expected to miss the vote. At least one TD, Anne Ferris, has said she will break the party whip and vote in favour of the Bill.
Fianna Fáil is allowing a free vote on the issue.
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Can we have a list of names of the ones in Dublin?
They are all on the FSAI website.
How about a list please so we can avoid them
I’m going to Belfast for chips. According to the map they’re the bees knees.
Mentioning cork in the subheading and not Dublin is very misleading – the author easily dismisses Dublins number 1 spot due to population but not Cork.
Big city small problems
Aye. Dublin has bigger problems than just the most takeaways closing. Like open gang warfare, near daily shootings and a massive drugs problem.
There is 8 counties not mentioned in that list. Are we to assume everything was hunky dorey in those counties or is it the case the health inspectors in those counties are not doing their job properly.
There’s no food outlets in Leitrim. 4 pubs, a Spar, a petrol station and a church. That’s it.
So far in 2017 on the Fsai site tbese have been closed…. Express Pizza (take away), 6 Lord Edward Street, Limerick Punjab Pantry (take away), 39 Richmond Street South, Dublin 2 Synergy Subs Ltd t/a Subway (restaurant/café), Mellview House, M1 Retail Park, Drogheda, Louth Jalapeno Mexican Cuisine Ltd (restaurant/café), 46 Drumcondra Road Lower, Drumcondra, Dublin 9 Culleton’s Fish & Chips (restaurant/café), Main Street, Bansha, Tipperary Hot Spot (take away), Parnell Street, Limerick Polonez (retailer), 20 Moore Street, Dublin 1 Pacinos Restaurant, 18 Suffolk Street, Dublin 2 Beachview Tandoori (take away), Strand Road, Laytown, Meath Kavanaghs Fine Foods Cork Ltd (service sector) A Chef Kebab Foodstall, At Daltons Pub car park, Fuerty, Roscommon Day to Day (retailer), 54 Georges Street Upper, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin Palak Restaurant, High Street, Tuam, Galway Ali Baba (restaurant/café), Bank Place, Rathkeale, Limerick T/A I&A Organic Gardening and Catering (food processor), 21 Shandon Way, Shandon, Cork Auckley Ltd., The Palace (public house), 17 Ludlow Street, Navan, Meath Largo Foods (manufacturer), Kilbrew, Ashboune, Meath
And not one in Sligo!
Ah ya but we have the Wild Atlantic Way… all ye have is Hurling ha ha!
@Larry Doyle: The inspectors name was Kenneth and they completed their mission. Bad egg I’d say!!
Environmental Health Officers do a great job and follow things through.
I wish they could enforce a public notice on the front of the premises like in the U.K. A post on here mentioned some law in California which was even better but I can’t recall it.
Not surprised about The Punjab Pantry.. I was driving down Richmond Street yesterday and i kid you not it is like something out of Damascus. The dirt and smell OMG is like something i have never seen. FILTH. I can only imagine the restaurants/takeaways. Rolled the windows down and quickly rolled them back up. The hum in the air i can still smell it.
If the names of the places are already in the public domain, Why not publish them. This article is as good as useless if it doesn’t. I’m no wiser than I was before when it comes to deciding where not to eat. Sorry to be a moan.
No naming and shaming?
Having lived in Roscommon I can believe it.
I’d love to see a closure per capita rate – if anyone has the time
Name and shame please
Best chipper in the country was poison paddy’s in Blackrock village cork , when horse meet was meet and we still gave a few Bob for the black baby’s
Why not name and shame the offenders? Telling us in which counties they’re located is a pointless and tells us NOTHING.
Cleanest chipper I have come across recently is Whartons Fish and Chips in Bantry town in County Cork.
Is that yourself?
name and shame!
What about Moore Street, Dublin?
Were in cork are they
Why not name and shame the offenders? We need to know WHO they are, not just where they are so we can avoid eating at these places. The information is useless otherwise ….
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