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

I welcome our guests and thank them for their information. I will approach the matter from the point of view of education, which is a fundamental part of access to contraception in respect of giving advice to women and girls well in advance in order that they will have some idea of the necessity to have options.

Is it intended to impart the information through schools, pharmacies or GPs? What is the best way to provide that information? During the hearings on the eighth amendment, we came across a number of cases where there was a serious dearth of information, particularly among teenagers.