Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 31 May 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion

Ms Marie O'Shea:

I think I would. The recruitment process seems to be a grey area not knowing whether a person can be asked if they have a conscientious objection or not. It might be something that would provide comfort to employers. It could even be in ministerial guidelines to the Act to state that there are restrictions on the conscientious objections, that it is not an absolute right and that it has to be compromised in certain conditions and one of those is in the provision of healthcare. It might be of comfort to employers to see that in that format so that-----

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