Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 November 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Working Group on Access to Contraception: Discussion

Mr. Andrew Conlon:

The answer is "both". The data in the report come from the Irish contraception and crisis pregnancy, ICCP, survey of 2010, which highlighted that, I think, 12% of people had difficulty accessing contraception and 3% of respondents identified costs. I will say straight away that the position is much more complex than that 3% figure suggests. There is a distinction, which the report tried to make, between a whole-of-population basis and particular cohorts of people, in particular individuals whom front-line practitioners see. It is not an either-or; it is a matter of trying to present that whole picture.

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