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

Photo of Bernard DurkanBernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I want to emphasise the question. We should make no mistake that there are many things we need to get right in the health services in general. It is no reflection on anybody in the room but if we do not get something right soon, our credibility as a nation among the family of nations will be seriously at risk. We all need to put our shoulders to the wheel, whether we are administrators, politicians or medical professionals. We need to be clear on where we are going and we need to provide the services that are required. They should be of the highest quality and have the highest degree of availability.

We have been living for years with the nonsense of having to wait for services but in the case of a pregnancy, there is not much sense in telling somebody to come back next year or the year after. We cannot have waiting lists for this service. If we have a slow down in the process, it will damage the entire structure of the service.

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