Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 October 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution
Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane
1:30 pm
James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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Yes. I thank the professor for being here. She is very welcome. I very much echo her welcome for the belated recognition that there should be no distinction between physical and mental health. I think it is very important, whatever decisions are made, that no distinction is made between the two of those.
In terms of Professor O'Keane's role as a consultant psychiatrist and the impact of the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013, has its application been effective or non-effective in practice?