Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

It is also the point that one third of all the counselling services the programme funds are represented by these agencies which say they do not talk about abortion. Is that not an anomaly given the role of the crisis pregnancy programme? It funds counselling services that look at all three options, namely parenting, adoption and abortion, but one third of services, whether in rural or urban Ireland and notwithstanding the socio-economic point I made, will not talk to a woman unless she says, "I need to talk about abortion", at which point they will provide a list of doctors who will discuss it. Why would the HSE fund those agencies to provide one third of services?