Kate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I also take on board some of Ms McDermott's points about anomaly scanning and getting that letter to book. I remember getting my own letter for the anomaly scan and genuinely not really knowing what that meant. When I had a not great experience at that scan, I learned very quickly what it meant. My experience is at odds with Ms McDermott's experience. When I had a diagnosis for my first child of complex physical birth defects - not of a fatal foetal abnormality - which was my second pregnancy, no one pressurised me into anything. Like Ms McDermott telling her story, I distinctly remember such details of that day; I remember what I was wearing, I remember what the doctor was wearing, I remember the weather, I remember the heat, I remember the face of builder I met when I was going out.