Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I raise the issue because I am aware of two cases where different interpretations were given in maternity units. In one case, the person had booked airline tickets to travel to the UK for a termination and was persuaded to try a second maternity unit in Ireland, which adopted a different approach and provided the termination. In fact, the second maternity unit was correct in the action it took. Should that person have gone through that process of dealing with two different maternity units? I am not talking about small units but two major units where there was a significant difference in the interpretation of fatal foetal abnormality. Where a problem has been identified, will we have to wait for the full 12 months before something is done to deal with that issue?