Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South-Central, Sinn Fein)

I, too, was at the same meeting as Deputy Gould. I have been going to political meetings since I was 17 or 18 years of age and I have never left a meeting more shook than I was by that meeting. Some of the stories would make your blood boil and some would break your heart, to hear the accounts of the pain and on top of the pain and suffering, the grief in some instances that some of the women were suffering.

The attitude of medical professionals towards them was in some instances dismissive, in others careless and in some others frankly heartless and completely lacking in compassion. They totally dismissed what these women were going through.

The Minister and I disagree on a great deal. It seems we disagree on the policy approach. Surely she must accept that something is fundamentally wrong. I apologise. I am sure the Minister is dealing with something important-----

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