The country's two biggest political parties have been accused of shirking responsibility on the issue of abortion by refusing to call a referendum on the 8th Amendment.
Green Party leader Eamon Ryan said Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael can no longer bury their heads in the sand, and that the current system clearly isn't working.
Mr Ryan told the Young Greens Annual Convention in Cork that it's time for the people to have their say, and that his party will campaign for repeal under their new Reproductive Rights Policy.
“The system that is currently in place, quite simply, doesn’t work. It is not reducing the numbers of abortions and it is not looking after women in the most difficult of circumstances," he said.
"It is increasingly clear that the legal advice from the former Attorney General Peter Sutherland was correct and that the framing of the 8th Amendment to the Constitution was wrong."
“The Green Party is calling for a referendum on the 8th Amendment, and will be campaigning for repeal. We believe it is time for the people to be able to have a say on this issue."
Lorna Bogue is Leader of the Young Greens and will run for election in Mícheál Martin's Cork South–Central constituency. She says he is completely out of touch with Irish women:
