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:
No. I read the submission from Deputy Tóibín's political party on the number of incidents reported to the State Claims Agency. My competency to speak to these people and draw down as to whether this was due to a personal lack of knowledge, a systems failure, whether it was related to their decision or whether all three impacted on it is not there under the terms of reference of the report. We absolutely know, and it is recommended in the report, that there need to be safer systems. There has to be improved knowledge. There has to be monitoring and evaluation of the services. I refer to the review that Dame Lesley Regan is conducting into the operation of section 11 to look at the services and the supporting services that are there. That is all in there. The greatest respect we could pay to anybody who has had the misfortune to go through an adverse incident is to make the system safer. They are documented in the media. I am not going to-----
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