Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 November 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution

Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: One Day More (Resumed)

1:30 pm

Ms Liz McDermott:

On risk, one can be asked to define risk. When it comes to mental health, it is too vague a thing. Professor Veronica O'Keane said it is very difficult for us to diagnose or assess or quantify the risk. What is the risk? How do we deal in percentages? I had the one-in-a-million child and then I went on to have a child who got leukaemia at the age of two and almost died. Percentages, risks and statistics are kind of meaningless and that is why I think-----