Anti-abortion group walks out after row erupts

A ROW erupted between an anti-abortion group and a powerful Oireachtas Committee yesterday amid allegations that almost 9,000 of the group’s submissions had been destroyed.

The Mother and Child Campaign group made the allegation and then walked out of the third day of the public hearings on family rights being held by the All-Party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution.

But committee chairman Deputy Denis O’Donovan rejected the claim and accused the Mother and Child Campaign of subjecting his staff to “all types of harassment”.