the irish foreign affairs minister, micheal martin, said: this legislation is opposed by people in northern ireland, especially the victims and families who will be most directly impacted . the parents of children diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder are calling for more screening for the condition. ii—year—old lucas and 7—year—old penelope both have mld, which severely damages the brain and nervous system. penelope was diagnosed after her brother who is terminally ill showed symptoms. gemma dawson reports from saxilby in lincolnshire. oh, my word. look how you go, lucas. special memories from just a few years ago. wow. look at those ninja skills, nanny. i know. they loved playing out in the garden, getting into scuffles with each other. you wouldn't suspect anything. but after becoming concerned about lucas during lockdown, he was eventually diagnosed last year with mld, a genetic disease that gradually attacks the brain and body. ultimately, everything that lucas was and is will be slowly stripped away from him. it feels really bad because it's like a payoff, isn't it? for the fact that

and of course, the irish government, who is fianna fail, micheal martin is the are the tarnished downere. the deputy prime minister has taken this case and ironically, if it goes through and if it's ruled that it's illegal, that will actually also because it's a two sides of the one coin, it will argue that those ladders of comfort are also not legal, and what will end up happening is that you will have members of sinn fein who are in government and the biggest party in the republic of ireland being brought to court to defend themselves for historic incidents that happened maybe over 50 years ago. so there may be some political mischief here as well, because don't forget, there may be an election in the south of ireland in the next year and the thought of your electoral opposition being arrested and brought away to face charges of some of the worst in heinous crimes and terrorist crimes, that have ever been done in britain, would be quite the thing for a political party. >> thank you very much indeed. >> thank you very much indeed. >> we support that. open. thank you for watching and