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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE (30 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Have there been studies on what makes the difference?

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: What can one say about David as he marks 30 years and seven months? First, I say ad multos annos. I am not sure that David and I are that much closer to a meeting of minds on many admittedly significant issues. He has certainly grown on me in the ten years that I have known him since being elected to the Seanad and I would like to think that I have grown on David as well. I have thought...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: It was Pope John XXIII who thanked the Lord that he was not a liberal in his youth so that he was not a conservative in his old age.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I thought the Senator might like my example. Congratulations, David. I thank the Senator for all of the good that he does and I hope he will continue his good work. I do not know whether David would agree with me on the following. I know that he has been a critic of the abuses perpetrated by the media from time to time. I do not know what he thinks of the report produced by the Oireachtas...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: It would be a miracle.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Approximately how many abortions did Mr. Thompson carry out under clauses C and D in the days when he practiced gynaecology, as he put it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Will Mr. Thompson please try to estimate?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: If the Chair will excuse me, I know the rules. I have asked my question and got my answer. Could Mr. Thompson estimate approximately how many abortions he has carried out under clause E?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: What would Mr. Thompson consider a small number?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I thank the Chair. I was fascinated by what Mr. Thompson had to say about seeking to distinguish between those children with Down's syndrome with normal hearts, as he put it, and those with abnormal hearts. May I tell him something about children with Down's syndrome and their hearts as we experience it in Ireland? Children with Down's syndrome generally have very big hearts. There are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: However, Mr. Thompson said that the foetus does not have rights in the UK. He does not seem to have a problem with that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Does Mr. Thompson have any ethical problem with that law? He seems to be happy to act under it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: He does not but I am still entitled to ask the question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: We can talk about that again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I put it to the witness that he does not seem to have any ethical problem with the state of the law. He seems to be quite happy to act under it. May I put it another way? I suggest that Mr. Thompson has become desensitised to the humanity of these unborn children as a result of complying with procedures, including late-term abortions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Mr. Thompson adduced evidence regarding marital breakdown rates and the pressure involved and specifically mentioned trisomy 21, which is Down's syndrome. Is he not giving that evidence in order to make out a case that such children are more of a burden and, therefore, to somehow sanitise abortion on those grounds?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: In our culture, there are conventions on the rights of people with disabilities. Ireland has far more to do in that regard and many are concerned enough is not being done. However, disability is here being presented as a ground for abortion. Clearly, such people must be second-class citizens. Does it not make a nonsense of having a convention on the rights of those with disabilities if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I am trying to bring out how the United Kingdom system works and the impact it has on the medical profession, as well as on unborn children, of which everybody is aware. I wish to ask Mr. Thompson about foetal pain. He referenced the document from the Royal College which suggests it is less likely that there is foetal pain. It does not use the language of certainty. If there is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: Mr Thompson may use his hands to indicate if he wishes or he can tell us in inches or centimetres what size a baby is. Many people discuss this issue as though it is mathematics but there are real-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: Mr. Peter Thompson, Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (29 Nov 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I ask the witness to demonstrate to those present and the television cameras.