Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Such interference can steal one's thunder. Before I ask questions and everything else, I want to say the following and have it minuted. I feel that it is regrettable that we have not heard from people or representative groups who have experienced crisis pregnancies but chose not to have an abortion and parent instead.

Several pro-life groups who have been invited to appear before the committee have not shown up, and there is still a vacuum. Chairman, I wonder if the pro life spaces will be filled.