Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 December 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health

Ms Geraldine Luddy:

It will be advertised on the website as well as digitally and intermittently in newspapers. We are also writing to targeted groups, for example, Roma groups, migrant groups and some Traveller groups. Literacy problems are also a consideration. We are undertaking targeted communications to key stakeholder groups and writing to them to tell them that the consultation is under way, provide them with information on the consultation and ask them whether there is a better manner in which they could contribute. We will undertake targeted consultations as well as the more general public consultation. We are leaving the public consultation open until 1 April to give people and groups a great deal of time to contribute because some stakeholder groups will need longer. At the consultation's launch, we will put adverts in newspapers and publish digital adverts intermittently. We will do the same again early in the new year and coming into March so as to give people reminders.