Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Chair and I thank the witnesses for coming in. They have given us a very different view. The woman centred approach in the Netherlands is striking but at the same time, there are some things that seem a little bit contradictory.

There has been a consistent attempt at this committee, and we saw evidence of it again today, to use disabled people or people with disabilities in order to support an anti-abortion stance. The witnesses' figures on Downs syndrome were quite good. I ask Professor Pajkrt to go over the statistics she gave again because there has also been an attempt to portray prenatal screening as an attempt to eliminate anyone with a disability. My reading of the figures she gave, however, is that prenatal diagnosis has had no impact on the abortion rate but has had an impact on late abortions. Would that be a correct reading of it?