Ms Marie O'Shea:

As I understand it, this data is coming from the PCRS office and is based on GPs claims for one visit only. There will be a claim for one visit only if the woman was over nine weeks and six days pregnant. At that point, they have to get referred to hospital. Those numbers are in there. Theoretically, the number of people who perhaps attended a different GP because they did not like the approach of that particular person or that particular person was not available on another day are in there. Women who miscarried are also included. We have the research that the IFPA did. That showed that only 2% did not return for a second appointment. During the study, it would have been impossible to do a retrospective piece of research on why people did not attend and I addressed that to the committee earlier on