Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 September 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution

Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Engagement with Ms Justice Mary Laffoy, Citizens' Assembly

1:30 pm

Ms Justice Mary Laffoy:

We dedicated a lot of time - practically a whole day - to them. We had four speakers on fatal foetal abnormalities in respect of both the legal and medical situations, and on rape we heard from Maeve Eogan from SATU and Noeline Blackwell from the Rape Crisis Centre. We had a very good talk from Tom O'Malley of NUIG on the legal position. It would be in members' interests to read that paper as it is very helpful. Otherwise, I did not perceive any particular focus on those two items, though they were raised at the very beginning.

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