Professor Fergal Malone:

I can tell the Deputy the practice in the Rotunda. We are here to care for patients. We are not here to police the system or anything of that nature.

The Deputy's figures are correct. I quoted the 2016 figures in the Rotunda for cases of Down's syndrome. We have no goal of eradicating Down's syndrome. As said, nearly 50% of our patients choose to continue and value their pregnancies. I have seen patients with more than one baby with Down's syndrome and we embrace and support that. It is a wonderful thing. We have no goal of eradicating from society any group of patients. We are here to care for patients. That is all.