Paul Gavan (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The good news is that most of the questions I wanted to ask have been posed and I only have one left. I thank Professor O'Keane for her excellent presentation, which was full of facts and evidence. That is what all of us want to hear. The line that resonates with me most is the one she repeated a moment ago to the effect that the mental health of everybody in Ireland is being damaged by the eight amendment. I remember campaigning against the amendment in 1983. We need to remember that, at that time, the State was still locking women up when they were pregnant. They were being locked up in the Good Shepherd Convent in Limerick, next door to where I lived when I was a student. Those were the times in which we lived. This amendment is a vestige of that dark culture of hiding everything away, particularly in the context of women. That is the end of the speech.

We heard about rogue agencies, counselling agencies that were not actually offering non-directive counselling but counselling to persuade women one way, namely, to not have terminations. Has Professor O'Keane come across people who have had access to those rogue agencies and, if so, what was the impact on the mental health of those individuals?