Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution
Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Discussion
1:30 pm
Peter Fitzpatrick (Louth, Fine Gael)
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Given that the Department of Education and Skills is looking at relationships education and mental health, these are surely affected by the failure to be able to have a baby naturally or to adopt it, so is it reasonable to ask what the Department of Education and Skills is proposing to do to teach students how adoption is a positive alternative to abortion? That is where I am coming from. Adoption would be a positive element.