Ms Janice Donlon:

Yes. The Crisis Pregnancy Agency was established in 2001 and the HSE assumed responsibility for it in 2010. In the early stages, women certainly were accessing crisis pregnancy counsellors in order to gain information on abortion clinics in the UK as that information was not widely available at the time. With the advance of the Internet, people who are only seeking information on where the clinics are located and so on are certainly not attending the services. The services inform us that those types of client are not attending the services any more. Those attending do so with more complex needs around other areas of their lives and seek a counselling service to find the space and time to consider their decisions.