Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am no spokesperson for the laboratories but this links to some of the important points I have been making on aligning the tribunal with the rules of the High Court. It makes it likely that all parties will participate because the legal rules will be the same. The format and protocols might be different and, as we have been discussing, the compassionate way we engage is different but the legal rules will be the same.

It is absolutely true that it is a voluntary process. A woman could decide not to go there and opt instead to go to the High Court, as is her constitutional right, and laboratories can do so as well. We have been grappling with this for many months. There is no legal avenue that I can find in terms of an adjudicative tribunal whereby one could or would wish to remove the right of someone to go to the High Court.