31 TDs vote against X case law

The final Dáil vote saw 31 TDs oppose the X case legislation as numbers were swelled by left-wing deputies protesting that the new law was not liberal enough.

Ex-Europe minister Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East) was the only Government TD to break ranks on the final reading, and joined four ex-party colleagues already expelled from Fine Gael for refusing the whip: Terence Flanagan (Dublin North East), Peter Mathews (Dublin South), Billy Timmins (Wicklow) and Brian Walsh (Galway West).

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West) was the only Sinn Féin member to defy the whip and vote against and he has now been suspended for six months as punishment.