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THE PROTECTION OF Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013 has passed the final Dáil vote.
The bill was voted on by TDs following a day of intense debate on the 165 amendments tabled on the bill. It passed a final Dáil vote this evening by 127 votes to 31 and received both cross-party support and cross-party opposition.
The landmark legislation will permit abortion in Ireland in limited circumstances. Only one party was allowed a free vote on the bill, Fianna Fáil, while other parties voted in support of the bill.
The TDs within those parties under the whip system who voted against bill will find themselves expelled from the parliamentary party this evening.
During the first Dáil vote on the bill before it went to committee stage, four Fine Gael TDs and one Sinn Féin TD voted against it, and were expelled from their respective parliamentary parties.
Tonight, all eyes were on Fine Gael Junior Minister Lucinda Creighton, to see whether she would vote against her party’s whip and find herself expelled from the party.
As it happened she voted against the Government well before the final overall vote. This happened during a vote on amendment 56 – immediately losing Creighton her place in the Fine Gael parliamentary party, and ultimately will take her job as Minister of State for European Affairs. She said later that she was “deeply disappointed” to have to vote against her party but that she felt aspects of the bill were based on “flawed logic”. She also voted against the Bill in the final vote.
Now that the bill has been approved by the Dáil, it will go to the Seanad for debate, beginning tomorrow.
Additional reporting by Susan Daly and Michelle Hennessy
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5%. Who makes this suff up! More like 25% at least.
@Cars: Facts mostly.
@Cars: it’s a rolling year stat….. It’s up 18.4% from January 2021. Maybe that’s what you refer to. Google “CSO CPI inflation calculator”….. An eye opening tool
@Daniel Roche: skewed statistics more like. If only it was 5%, that’s fairytale stuff to feed to the general population. The current government (and previous) failed miserably to deliver. Their only option to stand any chance of remaining in power will be to try indoctrinate the citizens with complete BS to paint a fictional picture of delivering.
Ii’ a lot more than that, grocery prices have soared.
5% ? put 2 if front or the 5 and it’s correct
Diesel gone up over 10c in Circle K in two weeks in Tallaght
@Eddienowy Byrne: same here in Wicklow
@Eddienowy Byrne: just in time now that the government are putting on 5c on Friday on diesel and 7c on petrol .. they hate giving people a break
@Gavin Kelly: That would imply that a break has ever been given.
@Gavin Kelly: Especially handy when they can claim their fuel and expenses.
@Gavin Kelly: That’s a lie and you know it,I’m not agreeing with it but at least tell the truth,that is a major problem and why people will vote FF or FG,they can’t trust the other side,better the devil you know, maybe tell the truth.
@George Vladisavljevic: You know the old saying ” All pigs are equal but some pigs are more equal”, Animal Farm.
5% and the rest. They having a laugh
Fuel rocketing back up as well since they put taxes back on ….this will lead to the increase of prices on everything
Full shopping bags are down 50%! And the Price has increased by 25%!
That’s just fact.
Who ever compiled this,please let us all know where you shop.
@Thomas: I shop in German supermarket and the numbers look about right to me, for the period over the last 12 months.
Definitely not 25% or even +40% as claimed here.
But maybe it’s my shopping habit – very little processed food on much meat either.
@Wolfgang Bonow: me also,the numbers may not be as high as 25 percent in some cases,but nothing is near as low as 5 percent.
@Wolfgang Bonow: even the German supermarkets have increased prices big time way more than the 5% spoke abouts.
They can no way still call themselves discount supermarkets
@Wolfgang Bonow: I do too.
But I noticed bread had increased in price by 17% between my last 2 visits.
These so called “journslist” from the journal printing lies and spreading falsehoods for the irish government..
Shame on you all at the journal,
@Adam: I agree,the authors of this article obviously know this is way down on the reality,but go ahead and publish it anyway.
Absolute rubbish. Inflation is really running at about 43% easily. I haven’t changed my spending at all and unfortunately for banks their apps are the real key to finding out just how bad inflation really is. My app had my spend at 43% higher than this time last year and I’ve actually cut back on certain things.
5%??? try 15 or 20% with some of the price increases ive seen lately……greed greed and more greed
They will most definitely need revision,
Brown Thomas getting a Lidl ‘middle isle’ this week apparently
It can’t be that number…. Most of the prices have increased by 30 to 50 percent… That are lying.
5%? Do they take us for fools or what…And as a lot of comments state the fuel increases will add to inflation even more, not to mention the carbon tax coming in the budget.
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