Professor Mary Higgins:

There is another way of interpreting it. We are just future-proofing for procedures, diagnoses and issues that we do not know about yet. Forty years ago, the most common form of contraception in Ireland was the Billings method. Nowadays we have multiple forms of contraception - I am very glad of that - many of which we provide for free for women who are attending for a termination of pregnancy here.

Thirty years ago, I would never have thought we could have done a hysterectomy for a transgender man - in a million years, I would not have thought it - or provide any kind of care-----