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)
4:05 pm
Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I understand from the Minister that the version of the report he will get will be different from the version that will be made public, and that there will be information to which the Minister or his successor will be privy but which will not be made available to the public, in the interests of making sure that doctors are not identified and so on. I accept in both cases that the woman's privacy is sacrosanct. The amendment keeps referring to "the report" and "a report". It is not explicit that the Minister can get a certain amount of information that he can hold but which does not appear in the published report. It seems to say that he only gets the same information as the published report, which is clearly at variance with what he has said.
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