Dr. Diarmuid Quinlan:

Safeguarding medical professionals and safeguarding patients are equally important. Some of the safeguards might be relatively straightforward, for example, an age prohibition. Other safeguards may be designed to avoid medical tourism, whereby one must be a resident of the State. They are clearly fairly binary for most people. Other safeguards then come into the eligibility criteria: which patients become eligible; what is the medical diagnosis; do we need a medical diagnosis; and who verifies that. Then we move into the whole conscientious objection piece and how we safeguard clinicians and patients when conscientious objection is a major point for those involved. The safeguards really are very important for professionals but also for our patients.