Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 8 November 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution
Risks to Mental Health: Dr. Anthony McCarthy, National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street
1:30 pm
Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent)
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Professor, I know that the situation can arise during pregnancy where women suffer depression or mental health disorder and that we need to ensure that women are cared for in the best way possible. Would the witness agree that the optimal outcome would be that a woman, a mother, gets the support and treatment that she needs and that both she and her baby are safely delivered of the pregnancy?