Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 13 June 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
General Scheme of the Patient Safety (Licensing) Bill: Discussion
9:00 am
Dr. Tony Holohan:
I was going to address the question Deputy Louise O'Reilly was asking on the ethos and questions around that. I am not in any sense trying to put words in her mouth. In respect of services where it might be expected to play out, for example the existing 2013 legislation that applies to abortion, places a duty on hospitals, whereby an individual can conscientiously object but an institution may not and that is a situation we expect to replicate in the course of the legislation we are working on now on future services.
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