Debate resumed on the following motion:
That, pursuant to Standing Order 205, the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Amendment) Bill 2023, which lapsed on the dissolution of the 33rd Dáil, shall be restored at Order for Committee Stage and notice shall be published pursuant to Standing Order 37.
- (Deputy Paul Murphy)
I must now deal with a postponed division relating to the motion regarding restoration of Private Members’ Bill to the Order Paper. On Tuesday, 16 December 2025, on the question, "That the motion be agreed to", a division was claimed and in accordance with Standing Order 85(2), that division must be taken now.
Question put.
The Dáil divided by electronic means.
As the gap between the votes is less than ten, given the importance of this matter, that this is about women's health and is about simply restoring a Bill to the Order Paper that already had passed Second Stage in the last Dáil, I am asking that we vote by means other than electronically. I ask people to look at their consciences and even shift from a "No".
(Interruptions).
Under Standing Order 88(3)(b), I propose that the vote be taken by other than electronic means.
Question again put:
The Dáil divided: Tá, 71; Níl, 73; Staon, 4.
Tellers: Tá, Deputies Paul Murphy and Ruth Coppinger; Níl, Deputies Danny Healy-Rae and Paul Lawless.
Question declared lost.