Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 30 November 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution
Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE
3:00 pm
Dr. Tony Holohan:
I was going to make some similar points that have already been made. In the context of what I said at the very outset about scenarios, not just the legal scenarios, the service implications are exactly what we are working on in a primary care situation, a secondary care situation and so on. Regarding the point Dr. McKenna made about an intervention that could take place at one point but via medical means, as opposed to the same intervention with the same purpose taking place at a later stage by surgical means, there is a clear patient safety implication.
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