Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 September 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution

Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Engagement with Ms Justice Mary Laffoy, Citizens' Assembly

1:30 pm

Ms Sharon Finegan:

The other place where policy came up was in the ancillary recommendations in the report, of which five related to improvements in sexual health and relationship education, access to reproductive health care, the same standard of obstetrical care, including scanning and testing, counselling and support services, and consideration about the funding of who should carry out termination of pregnancy in Ireland if it is decided.

They were the policy issues that emerged from that part of the process as distinct from the legal ones the Chairman has been discussing.