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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: We were to have Professor Casey here today. She is also a very eminent psychiatrist. Her letter was not read into the record by the Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am making this point because I asked during private session to have the letter read into the public record. That should have happened because Professor Casey had elaborated on many views that are the opposite of those of Professor O'Keane.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: When?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am sorry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: But the Chairman has done-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The Chairman has read other statements into the public record.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I had to read my own correction last week; the Chairman refused to read it. We know how biased the committee is. We know the way it is treating the people and we know what is happening.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is not; it is very true.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I wrote to the Chairman to ask her to read a clarification from my good self and she did not allow it. She said I would have to read it myself.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I did not-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: That is another issue. That is about something else. I read the clarification last week because the Chairman did not do so when I wrote to her requesting that she read it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: On that point, I offered last week to listen to our three witnesses before I read the clarification. I am not being unfair to anybody. Let us be fair. I am just making the point that we have heard from Professor Patricia Casey, a very eminent psychiatrist, and she asked that her letter be read into the public record here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Whatever. All I want is fair play and a hearing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I also asked the Chairman to look at a short video-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: -----of an animated abortion. That did not happen either.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: There are constant, ignorant interruptions from people-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: -----who will not tell us where Jean McConville was murdered or her body hidden. Her family-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The Senator talks so much about Limerick. There are double standards at this committee. That is the double standard we are dealing with from Sinn Féin,-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: -----which will not tell us where a woman with 12 or 13 children who was abducted-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health of Pregnant Women: Professor Veronica O'Keane (25 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: -----and then the Senator talks about a home in Limerick.