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.