Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I, too, will not repeat questions that have been asked and answered comprehensively, for which I thank the delegates.

I wish to tease out with Ms O'Toole her response to Senator Lynn Ruane on cases of which she is aware.

Ms O'Toole described one case in particular, but she referred to the fact that most of the cases related to children and the issue of travel was significant in many of them. She also said that the cases are obviously time sensitive so I wanted to pursue the question of delay. Late terminations are not desirable, earlier terminations are much more preferable for all sorts of reasons. Can Ms O'Toole speak of her experience and any other cases she is aware of where court proceedings lead to delay? She said that women seeking asylum and other similar situations come to the court in other ways, is I think how she put it. Can she tell us more about this? There is the issue of women in the asylum process in particular, who are curtailed in where they can travel. It would be helpful if we could get a better sense of what kind of cases are there and about the area of delay.