Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 January 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Department of Health (Resumed)

Photo of Neasa HouriganNeasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

That is very heartening. That is exactly the right approach, that is, a climate in which this does not happen.

On that issue, the next section is about the advice of the OPC on the harassment of health service providers. I wish to clarify two items more for the record than anything else. We may see an unintended consequence, since these protests would not be possible within certain areas, that things move at a distance such that there might be harassing phone calls or things that happen digitally, focused more on service providers than service users. I wish to clarify whether those kinds of acts, that kind of harassment, would be covered under section 10 of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act or whether they would fall under the newer law.

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