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)

Ms Caitriona Mason:

The big issue that we need to bottom out with them is the warnings. That will include whether we can leave it as it is, essentially, or whether we need to include temporal and geographic limits on those warnings. Then there is the question around the interaction between the warnings and the criminal law in Ireland. This is a unique feature. It has never been used in the Irish criminal law, as far as we have been told. The OPC is looking at that. That is the big issue.

Other issues that have been raised this morning include things like industrial relations. That has already been extensively raised and discussed with the OPC. It has assured us that the answer is "no" but we will do a final sweep. Following on from some of the comments at this meeting we will re-engage with the OPC on what was the previous head 6. Was there anything else?

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