Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 October 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution

Risks to Health, Including Physical Health, of Pregnant Women: Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Dr. Peter Boylan and Dr. Meabh Ní Bhuinneáin

1:40 pm

Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran:

There might be an element of where the doctors do not want to do it. However, we have not done a survey of anything like that to see whether it is because they do not want to do it, because they lack training or because the contract has gone. I will not be able to tease out the reasons or ascertain which is the right reason that fewer people are now keen to offer termination of pregnancy.