Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Independent)

There is no way of establishing that. The review will do that. As I mentioned, up to last Friday approximately 295 calls had been made since the helpline was opened. I understand that 95% of those calls were made to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital. I do not suggest all of those calls are cases, but obviously they were from people who had a miscarriage. To put the numbers in context, we have 14,000 miscarriages a year and 70,000 births. We do not suggest that all the calls relate to cases similar to the unfortunate Redmond case, but 295 is the number of calls made.

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