Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 November 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution

Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE

1:30 pm

Ms Helen Deely:

Okay. On access to contraception, we support the ICGP on training on long-acting reversible contraceptives and have done so for a number of years. We also run campaigns to encourage the consistent use of contraception by women and young men. Our programme extended its brief two years ago when the sexual health strategy was published and we now have responsibility for implementing that strategy within the HSE. As such, our mandate now extends beyond crisis pregnancy to looking at sexual health.