Jim Walsh (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Will Dr. Seán Ó Domhnaill and Dr. Eoghan de Faoite give us details about the Dublin declaration and the specialties of those involved because Dr. Rhona Mahony was quite dismissive of it when she was before the committee?

All the evidence we got from the medics was that they have never found a situation where our current legal framework in any way inhibited them from giving best possible care and being able to interfere in whatever way they felt was best practice to save the life of a mother. The fear of legislation has been raised, I understand, by certain obstetricians. There is a gathering number of them, a point to which Dr. Berry Kiely referred, that are concerned that by prescribing legislation, we would interfere with the current best practice in medical care despite our intentions not to do that. Will she expand on this?