Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

It has been expressed for a very long time in my lifetime alone. I say that as someone who chose a home birth. I am simply using the example. In my understanding and experience, nobody has ever been sued because of a home birth. It has never given rise to a High Court case. There has been a High Court case querying disciplinary proceedings, but I do not think a midwife has ever been sued because of a home birth. Obviously they are smaller in number, but we have been asking for a different system for a very long time. Look at the cost of going down the medical route.