Her appointment was criticised by the pro-life "Family and Life" group, who condemned Bulbulia for having opposed the 1983 pro-life amendment to the Constitution of Ireland. The following year the agency came into conflict with the Catholic pregnancy counselling agency "CURA", when it refused to renew "CURA"s €654,000 contract to provide advice to pregnant women. In 2005, "CURA" had stopped distributing the Agency's "Positive Options" leaflet after Bishops objected to its inclusion of information on abortion, in breach of its contract with the Crisis Pregnancy Agency, and in May 2007 Bulbulia said that it was up to CURA to look at the agency's terms and conditions to see if they could abide by them. The contract was not renewed, and in October 2007 the Irish episcopal conference instructed its chief negotiator, Bishop John Fleming, not to sign a new contract with the Crisis Pregnancy Agency unless the church's "absolute" opposition to abortion was respected.