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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: Is it 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: I accept that. I am asking the questions. I am entitled to ask.
- 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: This is the usual banter we get. This is why the people outside are so annoyed. We cannot ask our questions. I did not interrupt anybody.
- 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: Could we have a small bit of decorum, please? To follow on from my question, according to an article in The Economistin 2010 this practice has led to a massively skewed sex ratio in China, India, Taiwan, Singapore and elsewhere. The head of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, BPAS, has said it should be legalised in Britain because women should be free to make the choice. I refer to a...
- 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 professor may feel uncomfortable but I am entitled to ask the questions. We had a sweeping statement that everybody's mental health is affected by the eighth amendment. I was very uncomfortable with that. Thousands of people in the country are very uncomfortable about it. Professor O'Keane stated that she is not representing her profession here today and that her views on all the...
- 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: No, I am here to ask questions. Could I get an answer to my question please? Professor O'Keane can ask me a question any time.
- 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 if she does not want to answer the questions-----
- 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.