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:
This is something we can take back and commit to having a look at. Without prejudging it, many of the kinds of interventions that are effective contraceptions are not expensive. It is a question of cost, implementation and a range of things like that. If we were to do it, we would have to look at the various policy implications of it to provide universal access to one form of medication or one form of intervention, however we would define contraception. However, in broad terms, the specific interventions that make up the range of interventions that are contraception are not for the most part expensive.
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