Ms Marie O'Shea:

The HSE figures - I have checked this with the Department of Health - are based on the claims made by GPs for one visit only. As I have said to this committee on the last occasion and today, there will be a claim for one visit only where the person exceeded nine weeks and six days in pregnancy and would have had to be referred to a hospital. There is also the issue of miscarriage and the potential issue that they did not get on well with the GP and decided to go somewhere else. There are no data on the number of people who continued their pregnancy. We just have figures on the people who attended for one visit only.