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

What I am getting at is why people do not go to court. I am all for mediation but are a disproportionate amount of affected women not going to court? Mr. Kelly and Mr. Lynch spoke compassionately earlier but the reality is that if a women suffers damage during a birth that has aspects of negligence, if she was to go to court, like the 221 women who were misdiagnosed in the CervicalCheck case, she would have to go to court and prove she was doubly incontinent and not able to have sex. To go into court and detail that publicly is something no one would ever want to do. Is the system weighted against women? I am trying not to be sexist but if a man hurt his knee, that would not be overly private. Think of a woman who has to go court and say she had fourth-degree tears and has had to wear a nappy since she was 30 and will have to keep doing so in the future. That is not an attractive place to seek justice as a woman. Is the amount of women with complaints related to obstetrics and gynaecology particularly low?