Ms Marie O'Shea:

It was probably included in the first instance, perhaps in good faith, because there was a fear. Nobody could anticipate how the Act would be implemented, how people would access the services, or what their attitudes would be to accessing the services under the Act. Obviously, it was included to provide people with a reflection in order that they did not make a mistake they would later regret. That would be my reading into it. It has transpired, from the evidence base we have in the report from the UnPAC study, that women almost universally said they did not benefit from having a three-day wait and that they did not see the benefit of it for themselves.