On 10 February 2015, a bill put forward by Clare Daly to legislate for abortions in cases of fatal foetal abnormalities was rejected by the Dáil.
Earlier, on 6 February, People Before Profit Alliance TD Richard Boyd Barrett told the Dáil that he had had to bury his daughter because the "cruelty of nature" had turned her into a fatal foetal abnormality [REF].