Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

For clarity, what I said at the start was not "trust the doctors"; it was just "listen". What I had said to people was, "Let us listen to the midwifes, the nurses and the doctors", but I take the Deputy's point and I agree. The reason we are having this debate is because there is a very understandable deficit of trust because of the history in the State between religion and women's reproductive health.