Greg Daly
Minister Katherine Zappone It is “ridiculous” for the State’s Minister for Children to be in favour of permitting the abortion of unborn children, according to the member of the Audit Committee of the Department of Children and Youth Affairs who resigned last week.
Speaking to The Irish Catholic, former Deloitte Ireland chairman John Pittock said when Minister Katherine Zappone was appointed, he “had a vague feeling that she was probably generally not in favour of protecting life, but I didn’t really know very much about it – I don’t follow it that closely”.
Coverage
It was only coverage of the minister’s speech at the Kennedy Summer School in New Ross, however, that brought home to him how committed Ms Zappone is to removing Ireland’s constitutional protections for the unborn.
“It seemed to me an extraordinary thing to have a minister who’s responsible for children with that situation,” he said, adding, “I looked closer and decided it was ridiculous.”
Mr Pittock said he felt the contradictory nature of Ms Zappone’s position was untenable, given how the Constitution protects unborn children and the Minister for Children is called to protect children in general.
“I can’t reconcile it,” he said. “I just think it’s very bad for children, very bad for mothers, very bad for Ireland, so I just thought I didn’t want to be involved, and resigned.”