Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 3 July 2013

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed)

3:45 pm

Photo of James ReillyJames Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I could not have put it better myself. I need to know the registration numbers of the doctors carrying out and certifying procedures to ensure there is no abuse. That is for the Minister to know, but publishing them would expose doctors to a witchhunt, which I do not think is appropriate and of which I disapprove.

Section 20 of the Bill covers notifications and sets out, in some detail, the records to be kept on procedures carried out under the legislation and the contents thereof. It more than adequately covers the amendments proposed by Deputy Seamus Healy; therefore, there is no need for the detail he proposes. For this reason, I cannot accept the amendments.

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