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

Photo of Colm BurkeColm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will move on to section 11 of the Act and the inability to get access in cases of fatal foetal abnormality.

I have a case where a person was turned down for care in a major facility and was travelling to the UK but was persuaded to go to one of the other major facilities, which provided the service. The analysis from day one was correct; the foetus would not have survived. Of the people the witnesses met while compiling the review, had all of them got access to a medical facility here before they travelled? Was it a case of the service not being provided?

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