Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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655. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 551 of 16 November 2021, if he will provide the details of the notifications to date in 2021 given that he has advised that a notification of each termination of pregnancy carried out under the legislation must be notified to him within 28 days of it being carried out. [57446/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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As the Deputy may be aware, under section 20 of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018, a notification of each termination of pregnancy carried out under the legislation must be sent to the Minister for Health within 28 days of it being carried out. Section 20, subsections (3) and (4), require the Minister to prepare a report on the notifications received in a given year not later than 30 June the following year and thereafter to lay it before the Houses of the Oireachtas. This report may then be published.

In line with section 20 of the Act, therefore, the Annual Report on Notifications 2021 will be laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas on or before 30 June 2022. No information on notifications received under the Act will be released until after that report has been laid.