Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Will the Chairman take one last question, which arises from the discussion, or would that upset him? General practitioners advise; they do not force anyone in one direction or another. It goes a little beyond this, however. There may be a pre-existing condition which would require advice and a clinical decision as to what route a woman should go. I refer to a number of conditions one might have. I think I remember someone saying during the hearings that sepsis was a very rare condition nowadays. It is not, of course, as we now know. On that point, are the witnesses satisfied, from general discussion among themselves as a body, that they can, in all these circumstances, advise a woman or girl presenting with what could potentially be a crisis pregnancy in her best interest at that time?