Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 27 November 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Working Group on Access to Contraception: Discussion
Mr. Andrew Conlon:
That is the Minister's policy objective. As I mentioned previously, and I hate to repeat myself, detailed policy work, legislative work and nailing down the cost must be done. There must be a period of time to do the work and as that more detailed work is done, we become more informed on the cost, possible issues we have not foreseen and so forth. The Minister has been clear on his policy direction and objective and, hopefully, the working group has contributed to that. If we look at this as a preliminary appraisal in public spending code terms, plus a little more to do with consultation, that is probably the best way of looking at this report. Work is ongoing. I appreciate it appears to be under the surface, but a great deal of work is being done and it is represented in this report.
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