Contraception and Abortion Services in Northern Ireland
Full council, 25 February 2021: a named vote, carried.
For 19, Against 17, Abstained 3.
Party in overall control of the council on the date: No overall control. Each councillor's party is the one the council recorded for them at the time.
For (19)
- Aileen Mellon (Sinn Féin)
- Christopher Jackson (Sinn Féin)
- Dan Kelly (Sinn Féin)
- Kieran McGuire (Sinn Féin)
- Michael Cooper (Sinn Féin)
- Michaela Boyle (Sinn Féin)
- Patricia Logue (Sinn Féin)
- Paul Fleming (Sinn Féin)
- Ruairi McHugh (Sinn Féin)
- Sandra Duffy (Sinn Féin)
- Tina Burke (Sinn Féin)
- Brian Tierney (Social Democratic and Labour Party)
- Martin Reilly (Social Democratic and Labour Party)
- Rory Farrell (Social Democratic and Labour Party)
- Gary Donnelly (Independent)
- Paul Gallagher (Independent)
- Eamonn McCann (People Before Profit)
- Shaun Harkin (People Before Profit)
- Rachael Ferguson (Alliance Party)
Against (17)
- Alderman Allan Bresland (Democratic Unionist Party)
- Alderman David Ramsey (Democratic Unionist Party)
- Alderman Graham Warke (Democratic Unionist Party)
- Alderman Hilary McClintock (Democratic Unionist Party)
- Alderman Keith Kerrigan (Democratic Unionist Party)
- Alderman Maurice Devenney (Democratic Unionist Party)
- Alderman Ryan McCready (Democratic Unionist Party)
- Angela Dobbins (Social Democratic and Labour Party)
- Jason Barr (Social Democratic and Labour Party)
- Jim McKeever (Social Democratic and Labour Party)
- John Boyle (Social Democratic and Labour Party)
- Sean Mooney (Social Democratic and Labour Party)
- Steven Edwards (Social Democratic and Labour Party)
- Raymond Barr (Independent)
- Sean Carr (Independent)
- Emmet Doyle (Aontú)
- Alderman Derek Hussey (Ulster Unionist Party)
Abstained (3)
- Philip McKinney (Alliance Party)
- Shauna Cusack (Social Democratic and Labour Party)
- Alderman Darren Guy (Ulster Unionist Party)
From the minutes
tor of the Western Trust could wait up to six months to access the most effective long-acting methods of contraception. Councillor Doyle requested a recorded vote, the result of which was as follows: For: Councillors M Boyle, Burke, Cooper, Donnelly, Duffy, Farrell, Ferguson, Fleming, Gallagher, Harkin, Jackson, Kelly, Logue, McCann, McGuire, McHugh, Mellon, Reilly and Tierney – 19. Against: Aldermen Bresland, Devenney, Hussey, Kerrigan, McClintock, McCready, Ramsey and Warke; Councillors J Barr, R Barr, J Boyle, Carr, Dobbins, Doyle, Edwards, McKeever and Mooney – 17. Abstentions: Alderman Guy and Councillors Cusack and McKinney – 3. The Motion was therefore Carried and the Council Resolved That Council notes that: · March 31st will mark the first anniversary of the Abortion (N
The item in the council's own minutes. Names are matched to the councillors listed at the meeting. The names of people who aren't councillors are removed.