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 Seán CroweSeán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

A question was asked on what we will do as a committee. We will monitor it and we will probably look for a view from the Garda again on how this is evolving and on what challenges it feels there are. We will bring the Department back before the committee before the final draft. This meeting has been useful and it is useful for people who are following this at home. There is a lot of interest in this and this helps people at home to understand some of the challenges that are facing the service unit and those who are providing the services. We would all like to see that people do not feel intimidated when going for supports and that those who are providing those supports should not be intimidated. Legislation has been agreed by the vast majority of Irish people that these services should go ahead and that there should be no impediment blocking people. As a committee we will try our utmost to follow through on this and to make the legislation as ideal as possible.

I thank the representatives of the Department of Health for their assistance on this important matter. The committee will further consider the matter with a view to completing its pre-legislative scrutiny as soon as possible.

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