Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent)
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I would not expect the professor to know the exact details, but I had a lady in the audiovisual room in this House, and I invited the other members opposite along. She was the victim of an aborted abortion and was left on a window sill or ledge to die. Thankfully, she survived. A caring nurse passing by picked her up. She came in to tell her story. There are many cases and there is evidence of it all over the world. Where is the monitoring committee in those cases? All this adds to what Professor Binchy said about the role and the status of the monitoring committee. The committee does not have any real function in dealing with individual countries. The committee has to be careful in the language it uses because it has no legal standing, as such, other than the treaties that are enacted.