Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 January 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Department of Health (Resumed)

Ms Caitriona Mason:

Section 23 of the Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Offences) Bill, as we understand it, is to replace section 10 of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act, we understand quite soon. When we engaged with the OPC we went down through the type of conduct we were seeking to prohibit under head 8. On foot of the Deputy's comments this morning, we will definitely re-engage with the OPC, but it was certainly of the view that that type of conduct would be closed off under section 23.