Dr. Catherine Conlon:

If one thinks of healthcare generally, best practice in terms of healthcare is evidence-based care. In the context of a lot of health services in Ireland and a lot of health policy development, the WHO is seen as a gold-standard reference point, so why would it not be a gold-standard reference point in relation to this area of healthcare? One would it expect that it would be, so the Department engaging with the WHO on abortion healthcare, no more than any other healthcare, would be the assumption that we would make.