Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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551. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the dates of termination of pregnancy services carried out in Limerick Maternity Hospital in the past two months. [55717/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Under section 20 (1) of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018, a notification of each termination of pregnancy carried out under the legislation must be notified to the Minister for Health within 28 days of it being carried out.

The notifications are recorded on the form entitled “Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 (Notifications) Regulations 2018” (Statutory Instrument No. 597 of 2018). The following information is included in the form:

- Medical Council registration number of the medical practitioner who carried out the termination of pregnancy;

- The section of the Act under which the termination was carried out, i.e., section 9, 10, 11 or 12;

- Medical Council registration number(s) of the medical practitioner(s) who made the certification concerned;

- The county of residence, or place of residence (where the woman resides outside of the State) of the woman concerned;

- The date on which the termination of pregnancy was carried out.

No other information is notified to the Minister. This includes information on the number of terminations of pregnancy carried out by each hospital providing the service in a given time period.

The Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 - Annual Report on Notifications 2020was published on 29 June 2021, and is available on the Department of Health website.