Kate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I apologise if the following has been asked in my absence. What is the policy in the crisis agencies funded by the HSE when a woman tells a counsellor that she has taken illegal abortion pills obtained online? Are women being advised to say nothing or that they had a miscarriage or to tell their doctors the truth?

I spoke to a girl this morning who travelled to Liverpool last year to have an abortion. She told me how she was surprised to find HSE branded leaflets in the waiting room of the BPAS clinic. Who makes or writes these leaflets and who pays for them to be printed and sent to the UK? Is there a significant level of hypocrisy in printing these leaflets and distributing them across the water? Is the HSE aware of these leaflets being sent further afield than the UK, i.e. to other European countries to which, because of cheaper flights or whatever, there is evidence that people are travelling?

The lack of contraception in crisis pregnancies was raised earlier. People may not have the means or capacity to access contraception following abortions. Does the HSE's programme have any mechanism dedicated to dealing with sexually transmitted infections? Its title refers to "sexual health and crisis pregnancy".