Ms Justice Mary Laffoy:

That is the case because I checked up on that since the weekend. In both of those papers it was addressed. That is just a small point.

What we were trying to do was to give facts as to what happens on the ground in the ordinary case. We could not have attempted to give the whole story about termination of pregnancy since the 1967 Act was implemented in the United Kingdom. We were trying to give the members the factual position of what happened on the ground in the ordinary situation where a woman sought a termination. That is what we did. It is fair to say that that information was presented on a neutral basis. I accept what Senator Mullen says that we did not give the information he has suggested might have been given. We did not do that and a view may be formed on that, but I think we did give the members of the assembly what we believed to be the relevant information of what happened on the ground in the ordinary case. We gave them that information on a neutral, factual basis.