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- Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: ...clinic. Believe it or not, the healthcare workers there, by means of this new approach, have reduced the waiting list for women to access gynaecology services from four years. Imagine that from the initial referral by a GP to seeing a hospital-based gynaecologist there was a waiting list of four years. It is now four weeks. That is our ambition in women’s healthcare. Of course,...
- Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2024)
Rónán Mullen: ...is we do not have direct and precise knowledge of where abortions are taking place. We may know that certain hospitals are doing it, but a person who holds up a placard in a street and there is a GP surgery down the road does not know whether that person is a conscientious objector or whether abortions are being facilitated in that clinic. As far as I can see, they are caught by the law...
- Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: He has insulted every GP, he has insulted every nurse, he has insulted everyone who works in the healthcare services. I do not mind him insulting the Government; that is fine, it is part of what we do in here. To suggest, however, that we should debate without insulting people and then stand up-----
- Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2024)
Rónán Mullen: .... Let us say they are in a clinic that is providing abortions or somebody within the clinic is providing abortions, but unlike the Government, they respect that there are two sides to it and that they have people perhaps within their GP clinic who do not agree with abortion. They might say that some staff may provide this service, but we do not want our provision of this service to be...
- Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2024)
Sharon Keogan: Amendment No. 2 provides for the opt-out for general practitioners who do not wish their GP surgeries to automatically become a safe access zone by notifying the Minister for Health. We know that most GPs do not want to provide abortion and the majority are not offering abortions at the moment by exercising their right to conscientious objection. Therefore, I find the automatic inclusion in...