Dr. Peter Boylan:

I can assure the Deputy that I have a full understanding of patient confidentiality. It is possible to give relevant details in order to convince people that they are doing terminations. The ethical code of St. Vincent's Hospital is clearly Catholic. It is or was run by the Sisters of Charity. There is no question that the ethical code in St. Vincent's was Catholic, and we do not know if it still is because we have not seen any ethical code. There is a lot of documentation that we have not seen. I would like to see documentary evidence to back up statements that were made. In particular the State, the public and the women of Ireland need to see what I term the Vatican papers. Otherwise we cannot trust what has been said and what has been done. Yesterday we heard about the lack of trust surrounding the treatment of women in this country. Unfortunately we have learned the history of relations with the Vatican in terms of mental reservation, the way people were treated and so on. I think we need to be careful without seeing the papers.