Fidelma Healy Eames (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----is proof of the need for legislation to give effect to the X case. The council has no evidence for that. That is a very dangerous claim, one that is adding panic to this debate unnecessarily. We must deal with this debate in a logical and calm way because this is about deciding our future. This claim is also about promoting the council's own agenda. Will Ms O'Connor address this?

Ms O'Connor also said it is insulting to women not to believe them about the risk of suicide. I said earlier today that one of the failings of these hearings, of which there have not been many, is that no primary evidence has been given by women in crisis. Is it not more insulting and damaging to women to think that abortion will treat suicide when now we have far more evidence on this since 1993?