Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 October 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed)
Dr. Catherine Conlon:
Sorry. The assumption or the conjecture is being made that for people who attend for a first appointment and do not attend for a second, it is the value of the three-day wait that means they do not come back. First of all, the only systematic evidence we have as regards people who do not return is from the Irish Family Planning Association because the nature of our data collection is totally deficient, so the data collection systems as regards the service are one thing that certainly could be looked at in the review.
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