Ms Justice Mary Laffoy:

One thing that I think we did not cover sufficiently because the circumstances are changing is abortion pills. I was slightly concerned after the final hearing and after we had prepared our report that the HSE crisis pregnancy agency put online up-to-date statistics. What emerges from that is that the number of women going to the United Kingdom and The Netherlands for terminations has reduced. The committee is probably aware of that. However, on the HSE website on 13 May it stated - I can barely read it - "Recent research shows that increasing numbers of women from the island of Ireland are making contact with online abortion pill providers". That is a factor that the committee should examine. We got great assistance from the crisis pregnancy agency at the HSE. I think the committee would benefit from getting assistance from it. That is something that concerns me.