Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 November 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution

Socioeconomic Context: Dr. Caitriona Henchion and Mr. Niall Behan, Irish Family Planning Association

1:30 pm

Mr. Niall Behan:

While this was going on within reputable counselling services, not just the IFPA, rogue agencies were allowed to practise. Women were going into rogue agencies that had absolutely no scrutiny or legislation to call them to account. That makes the law a shambles. When there are organisations relying on best practice to provide these services, and the law only applies to them and not to rogue agencies, that is a shambles.