Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 September 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Clinical Guidelines for the Introduction of Abortion Services: Discussion

9:00 am

Dr. Peter Boylan:

I agree about the ring-fenced budget for women's healthcare. It is essential. We have seen too many times how women's healthcare has been problematic because of a lack of governance and budgetary constraints. The question about buy-in from the Department of Health really goes back to the question of governance of the whole process. From that point of view, it is important that the Department in some way leads out on co-ordination and getting everybody together around the table as we spoke of before. In the long term, this process should have a proper governance structure. We saw that a major issue with CervicalCheck was a lack of governance and overall supervision of the process.

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