Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 17 July 2025
Committee on Children and Equality
General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Mr. Andrew Holohan:
I feel that if the law had been in place, what happened to my wife would not have happened. My wife was on 2 ml of methadone while she was giving birth. The nurses were coming in and giving other people a break and my wife felt like she was being discriminated against because she was on that. They would not give my wife a break.
This was her first child.
I have a book here. The Deputy can have it if he wants want it. It is called Breaking Barriers. It is an approach to defining socioeconomic discrimination. I feel like his answers would all be in that.