Dr. Catherine Conlon:

I will join Ms O'Shea in answering here, please. I have a colleague in the school of social work and social policy in Trinity College Dublin, Professor Stephanie Holt, whose expertise is in the area of domestic violence. We have been having some discussions around this. From her analysis of the literature to date, there has not been extensive evidence in the literature or even attention in the literature to this issue. One of the areas of our research direction will be to look at the intersection between domestic violence and reproductive coercion. The model recommended in the report is the hybrid model. It anticipates that the person will attend with the doctor on at least one occasion. That ameliorates the concern the Senator is expressing there.