Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

If Ms McLaughlin forgives me, the Chair is going to cut me off in 30 seconds and I have to put an important question to Ms Martin. It really disturbed me to hear some eminent physicians say this is a problem of the mind. One patient has told me there was a suggestion they had augmented pain syndrome, that is, that the women were imagining it. I am a man so I cannot begin to imagine the pain these women have gone through but I know if I have toothache or any type of pain, for someone to tell me it was in my mind would drive me mad. Will Ms Martin tell us what it has been like for the women who have been told the pain is not of their body and nervous system but all in their mind?