Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 15 November 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution
Socioeconomic Context: Dr. Caitriona Henchion and Mr. Niall Behan, Irish Family Planning Association
1:30 pm
Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source
No, to clarify that. The witness stated earlier that the women, with all due respect, the women who attended undercover were not pregnant. They were not at the time but some of them had, at least two or three, been pregnant. I am also concerned about, and I tried to interject on a point of order earlier, the witness stating earlier that the gardaí were embarrassed by the investigation. I know that if I complain to the gardaí or any citizen, it does not come back that they are embarrassed. We are encouraged every day of the week to make a report however trivial or frivolous or whatever, so I am wondering how he knows or got that insight from the investigating gardaí that they were embarrassed.
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