Dr. Catherine Conlon:

Okay, so the first number to be removed from that figure is everybody who attended a hospital for abortion care in Ireland. We do not know the number of people who attended for the first abortion appointment who had already exceeded 12 weeks. The number of people who continued to travel to Britain from Ireland for an abortion or who accessed abortion outside of the jurisdiction could be removed from that 6,728. Therefore, Deputy Tóibín is making enormous conflations with no scientific basis with that discussion.