Brendan Ryan (Labour)

The Minister keeps on saying that he said all these things. However, what his script states is that he attaches significance to the fact that the rate of birth is 11%. They are all of the optimal childbearing age between approximately 18 and 30. I do not know what the Irish figures are for women in that age group. While the Minister may know, he did not tell us. The Minister put into his script a comparison between the birth rate among all Irish women——