Dr. Catherine Conlon:

Can I respond to Deputy Tóibín? A response to a parliamentary question does not have the rigour of a scientific evidence base when it is being assembled. We have looked at what has informed the answer to the parliamentary question, which is that the Department of Health has detailed to the Deputy the global number of people who attended a GP for one consultation under the Irish abortion service. There are a number of reasons a person attends for one consultation to a GP and then does not return. One reason, as Ms O'Shea has said repeatedly, is that they would go to a hospital.

The first numbers to be removed from that global figure of 6,728 - which is across how many years?