Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 11 July 2017

Select Committee on Health

Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage

1:30 pm

Photo of Louise O'ReillyLouise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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As we sit here today women with crisis pregnancies are faced with these individuals who do not seek to give them information but only to traumatise them. It is absolutely necessary that these individuals are regulated.

I accept the Minister's assurances that we will see substantial progress when we resume in the autumn. It is on that basis that I shall not press the amendment. I reserve the right to bring forward an amendment on Report Stage.