{"id":504526,"date":"2026-06-17T15:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T15:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/504526\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T15:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T15:22:16","slug":"taoiseach-and-tanaiste-to-back-sinn-fein-bill-removing-three-day-abortion-waiting-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/504526\/","title":{"rendered":"Taoiseach and T\u00e1naiste to back Sinn F\u00e9in bill removing three-day abortion waiting period"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin and T\u00e1naiste Simon Harris will both vote in favour of a Sinn F\u00e9in bill to remove the three-day waiting period for abortion services.<\/p>\n

The D\u00e1il is set to debate a bill tabled by Sinn F\u00e9in on Tuesday evening that seeks to remove the three-day reflection period that a woman must wait between seeking an abortion from a doctor and accessing the service, the Irish Examiner reports.<\/p>\n

The move comes just weeks after the Government and Sinn F\u00e9in voted against a similar motion from the Social Democrats, citing concerns about aspects of the proposed legislation, including changes to when abortions would be permitted in cases of fatal foetal abnormalities.<\/p>\n

Responding to questions from Sinn F\u00e9in leader Mary Lou McDonald in the D\u00e1il, the Taoiseach confirmed that he will vote in favour of the legislation and said further debate should take place at the Oireachtas health committee.<\/p>\n

Martin said he recognised that abortion was a \u201csensitive issue\u201d and that there were \u201ca range of opinions\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Taoiseach and T\u00e1naiste to back Sinn F\u00e9in bill removing three-day abortion waiting period<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe people did vote to repeal the 8th Amendment in 2018 and to provide free, safe and legal access to termination services,\u201d the Taoiseach said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am aware of the arguments for and against the removal of the three-day waiting period. It is important we have a respectful debate in the house.<\/p>\n

\u201cI intend to vote for this to go through to committee stage. At committee stage there will be, perhaps, a need for consequential amendments.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin and T\u00e1naiste Simon Harris will both vote in favour of a Sinn F\u00e9in bill to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-504526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}