Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Friday, 17 May 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children
Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings
11:10 am
Dr. Tony Holohan:
There is sufficient weight and, as I said earlier, we took advice from the Attorney General on that point and what the obligations were, in a general principle sense, on doctors in that situation. As I said earlier, it is clear there is a need for more detailed guidance - profession-specific guidance and specialty-specific guidance - for doctors to interpret what that might actually mean in the day-to-day practice of medicine. For example, obstetricians might determine that it requires a foetal ultrasound at a particular point in time and so on. I would simply leave it to the colleges to work out-----
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