Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 October 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution

Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin

1:40 pm

Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin:

The approach I hope to see going forward is that of deliberative democracy. The principle has been recorded in the Citizens' Assembly. If it could be replicated in the more open debate of deliberative democracy then perhaps some voices that have been silent before will participate at this time.