Jim Walsh (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Would that other groups that have appeared before the committee yesterday and this morning had taken the same professional approach Dr. Brady has taken - unfortunately they did not.

Dr. Brady spoke about the C case. Would he agree that the European Court of Human Rights allows a relatively broad range of discretion to countries and certainly from a time perspective it does not rush countries into taking positions that would be against the wishes of that country? Yesterday we heard from the masters of the maternity hospitals that the C case could have been adequately dealt with under normal procedures within their hospitals. If people, who are in remission from cancer, present in a pregnant condition there is a mechanism for dealing with that. Could we not answer the concerns with regard to the European court in that regard given that it has actually acknowledged in its judgment that our constitutional position is in fact fine?