Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent)
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Professor O'Keane made an extraordinary statement in her opening remarks, to my mind in any event, when she said, "I would go further and say that the mental health of everybody in Ireland is being damaged by the eighth amendment". Is this a medical opinion or has the professor carried out research, backing up this conjecture, that has assessed the mental health of every person in Ireland? Does she at least have an inclusive representative group? If not, I presume the professor's opinion is a political rather than a medical one. What about the 80,000 people who marched in this city not so long ago, not far from this building, to retain the eighth amendment?