John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

My time is over but I will make this point, especially to people who are watching. Most of the emails I have had regarding this in the past one to two months, related to the justifiable and legitimate fear of women of church interference, or the interference of a religious ethos, in respect of any procedures they are entitled to under law. We seem to have forgotten that very quickly because it has been dealt with. All those fears and concerns that were raised have been very adequately dealt with to the point they are not being raised anymore. It is now all about governance and ownership, but let us not forget the most significant points raised regarding the national maternity hospital were that all procedures and interventions necessary for women's health would be somehow jeopardised under this structure. It is too convenient to now focus on saying it is all about ownership and governance. Up to two weeks ago, it was about ethos, religious interference and no Catholic-run hospital in the world could provide X and Y.

Terminations take place in St. Vincent's hospital right now. The public and women need to be aware of that, and not for the conversation to be contaminated by supposition, catastrophising, conspiracy building and all the rest of it. Those are my questions.