I just got off the phone in the last hour to a couple in my constituency who have a diagnosis at 22 weeks of a fatal foetal anomaly. They have a two-and-a-half-year-old child and, at a multidisciplinary team meeting this morning, they were refused a termination on the grounds of fatal foetal anomaly because it is "impossible", in the words of Marie O'Shea, who spoke to the health committee in October, to say how long that baby will live if it survived birth. Despite this we have a clause, section 11, in the legislation that will not allow for doctors to recommend a termination in very tragic circumstances. This is a baby with one enlarged kidney covered in cysts with no amniotic fluid around its body and the mother is suffering in pain. She will be forced to travel to Liverpool and she was told to bring her two-and-a-half-year-old with her if she cannot get care. I cannot believe the cruelty going on in our hospitals at the moment and I am really pleading-----

The time is up, Deputy, please.

-----with this Government to do something about it. The Government has a comprehensive report-----

The time is up, Deputy, please.

-----coming back to it next week from Marie O'Shea. It can legislate on the grounds-----

Thank you, Deputy.

-----of at least fatal foetal anomaly and decriminalising abortion so it does not act as a chill factor in decisions that should be made for the care of women and not for the constitutionality of it.

I am very slow to comment on an individual case that is as stressful and potentially as tragic as the one the Deputy has just outlined-----

I want a comment on the legislation.

Please, Deputy.

-----but we will have an opportunity in the new year to finalise decisions on the report she mentioned. This House will have plenty of time to debate that early in the new year.