Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 December 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health

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

When it was discovered, at an early stage, that the legislation was not operating as was intended, action was proposed and was about to be taken, but was stood down because of the advent of Covid. Would it not have been possible to continue whatever action was required, regardless of Covid, on the basis that it was not going to overload the system to any great extent or any more than it was already overloaded? Why was that procedure stood down?

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