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Minister for Finance Michael Noonan and Minister for Public Expenditure Brendan Howlin. Tough exchanges between the Government and the troika on a revised Croke Park deal can be expected. Photograph: Alan Betson Coalition’s credibility at stake in new pay deal Harry McGee - Political Correspondent Harry McGee Political Correspondent

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Jerry Buttimer TD speaks to perinatal psychiatrists Dr Anthony McCarthy and Dr Joanne Fenton outside Leinster House yesterday. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins Doctors differ, patients fly and majority in Leinster House give abortion Bill a wide berth Miriam Lord - Miriam Lord

Oireachtas hearings matter little to the women leaving Ireland for abortion

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Jerry Buttimer TD speaks to perinatal psychiatrists Dr Anthony McCarthy and Dr Joanne Fenton outside Leinster House yesterday. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins Doctors differ, patients fly and majority in Leinster House give abortion Bill a wide berth

Oireachtas hearings matter little to the women leaving Ireland for abortion

Dr Anthony McCarthy, Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist at Leinster House yesterday. President of the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland: “These women could be psychotic, have voices in their heads telling them to kill their babies”

‘Real risk’ of suicide during pregnancy

Prof Kevin Malone, School of Medicine & Medical Science at UCD and St Vincent’s University Hospital. Psychiatrists are being asked to be judges in assessing suicide risk, abortion hearings told

Legislation could actually increase risk of suicide in young males, UCD professor says

Prof Veronica O’Keane, Consultant Psychiatrist, Tallaght Hospital & TCD. Abortion legislation is most likely to apply to pregnant teenage girls in care, psychiatrist says

Consultant psychiatrist Veronica O’Keane says a patient’s GP should make the recommendation for an abortion and one psychiatrist should assess the suicidal risk

Michéal Martin Majority of FF Senators and TDs now believed to support abortion legislation

Some Senators privately saying they will defy whip if party supports Bill

Seán Sherlock: Church should “carefully consider its position before making incendiary statements” Sherlock warns church on ‘incendiary comments’ over abortion

Medical council president Prof Kieran Murphy: not all psychiatrists worked in centres registered by the Mental Health Commission. Photograph: Eric Luke Council chief sought two medical personnel

Legislation allows for two psychiatrists and an obstetrician

Dr Peter Boylan, former master of the National Maternity Hospital: estimated there were some 60 terminations in hospitals in the State annually. Photograph: Gareth Chaney Collins Jail term of up to 14 years for a woman who has an abortion in Ireland ‘bizarre’

Master of Holles Street: ‘extraordinary’ that a woman could face this punishment

Master of the National Maternity Hospital Dr Rhona Mahony arrives for the committee hearings on the Heads of the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013 at Leinster House yesterday. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins Maternity hospital masters differ over suicide provision in planned legislation

Medical experts address Oireachtas committee on first day of hearings

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