Holly Cairns (Cork South West, Social Democrats)
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Senator Ruane has just covered the two questions I was going to ask. I thank the Solas for Mothers group for focusing our attention on language and its impact. Language should be accurate and considered. The witnesses point out the term "birth mothers" as being offensive, along with phrases like "given up", and we all agree with that. In other meetings the question of the language to be used has come up. To clarify, was the suggestion that a reference to mothers should simply be the term "mother" with nothing before or after it?