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

That is useful for the committee to know. Clearly, it is a basic issue we must examine. Both delegates have answered about the floodgates being opened and so forth. I understand Dr. Sedgh's research is mainly on groups of countries and that it is hard to be specific about Ireland's case, but is there any other comparison in respect of women in one country who have easy access to abortion in another, as we do in Ireland, and to show how statistics might have changed when the law became more liberal such that women did not need to travel?

I do not know if the delegates have statistics for the use of the abortion pill bought online, but are there statistics in other countries? Judge Laffoy said the Citizens' Assembly was unable to deal with the issue in great detail, but it is one of the issues that have arisen for the committee.