Dr. Brendan O'Shea:

The Deputy is touching on our personal experience as practitioners and we have reservations about that. However, it is an important issue. All general practitioners are familiar with patients who have had painful experiences in their past because people come to us regarding a variety of events three, five, ten, 40 or 50 years after the event occurring. Child sexual abuse and non-accidental injury feature very prominently in that regard. My impression and belief is that the situation the Deputy described does not feature very highly. That is an impression, almost an opinion, not an objective fact and I am not trying to pretend it is.