Rónán Mullen (Independent) | Oireachtas source

That is as I understood it to be. Those issues are important because rather than being so fast and loose about facts in respect of an issue that is life-and-death in nature, it is really important that we strive for clarity. That means telling the full story. Going back to the question of abortions having been prevented, it is the case is it not that in Northern Ireland it was claimed that 100,000 lives had been preserved by the operation of the law there that the Advertising Standards Authority upheld the right to state that. The notion of it being false advertising was dismissed. I understand it is also the case that an actuarial study in Ireland estimated conservatively that a similar figure of lives, 100,000, had been saved on the assumption that had there not been the eight amendment legislation would have followed at some stage, gradually, to legalise abortion on increasingly wide grounds. Is that correct?