Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The general scheme of the Bill has been prepared and was published in March. There has been a lot of preparatory work done around that general scheme to allow us to draft the legislation quickly. There is not a draft Bill ready yet but a lot of work has been done on the general scheme to allow us to legislate and prepare the legislation quite quickly.

The Minister, Deputy Harris, will meet with the spokespeople tomorrow and will go through some of those other issues. I expect that it will be treated as a normal healthcare service and will fall within the same rules of the General Medical Services Scheme.

With regard to importing medicines online, abortion pills or any other pills, it is not lawful to import prescription medicines online. This is for very good reasons around patient safety.

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