Dr. Tony Holohan:

What I am happy to say is that what we are providing for in this set of heads is a set of circumstances in which a woman who has a genuine, real and substantial risk to her life can receive a service by doctors who can operate with certainty as to their protections under the law in acting in the interests of that woman who, because of the risk to her life, will be in a situation where she has recourse to and dependence on that treatment. We must have a situation where doctors who operate in that environment, in the best interests of the woman who has a real and substantial risk to her life, do what is necessary to provide for that.