Abortion amendments have me concerned about bill

It was interesting to note that around 156 amendments were tabled on the recent legislation in the Dáil.

This amount of amendments would lead one to wonder why this was, as surely the original legislation would have been (should have been) framed with a major input from all our state paid legal eagles, ie Attorney General, Supreme Court, etc.

Perhaps I’m wrong, but I get the feeling that this legislation may have been a ‘rushed’ job and thus all the hubris that we have had to put up with in the papers and on TV over the past months. If this legislation and its numerous amendments was deemed so important why was the Dáil so sparsely populated during the various debates. At one session I counted 11 TDs in the Dáil. Perhaps the rest were in the bar thinking up more amendments!