Michael Collins (Cork South West, Independent)
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597. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide data compiled by the HSE of recorded protests against abortion including the date, time, number present and any other recorded information from 2019 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3154/23]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The Health Service Executive has advised that most of the feedback they have received with regard to protests has been provided verbally by members of the Termination of Pregnancy, Clinical Advisory Forum, on an ad hocinformal basis. In this regard, they have heard of protests outside the Coombe, Cork University Maternity Hospital, University Maternity Hospital Limerick and the National Maternity Hospital at various intervals.

Moreover, to assist the Department with their appearance before the Health Committee, the HSE undertook a media search of such protests. The list used by the Department before the Committee is synopsis from this exercise, (copy as follows). Just to note that this information is all publicly available online and the list should not be taken to be exhaustive.