Carol Nolan (Offaly, Independent)
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1121. To ask the Minister for Health if a decision was taken at Department of Health and HSE level, prior to the abortion law changing in 2019, to adopt an approach to pregnancy counselling services, such as including the withholding of public funding from any pregnancy counselling agency not prepared to engage in abortion referral under the new legal regime proposed in 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24000/25]

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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As the Deputy's question relates to service matters, I have referred it to the HSE for answer.

Carol Nolan (Offaly, Independent)
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1122. To ask the Minister for Health if the figure of 10,021 payments for completed medical abortions (details supplied) represents the number of payments to general practitioners, family planning clinics and women's health clinics in 2023, but not to medical abortions provided in hospitals for women between 9 and 12 weeks' gestation; the number of such hospital medical abortions in 2023; the estimated total number of abortions in 2023, calculated by adding medical abortions in the community setting to medical and surgical abortions in hospitals; to compare this estimate of total abortions with the estimate, based on notifications received of 10,033 abortions in her Department’s annual report for 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24003/25]

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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As the Deputy's question relates to service matters, I have referred it to the HSE for answer.

Carol Nolan (Offaly, Independent)
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1123. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which a reported figure of 10,021 early-pregnancy abortions in 2023 (details supplied) can be reconciled with a figure of 9,876 early-pregnancy abortions in the Department of Health abortion report for the same year, given that the figure of 9,876 includes early-pregnancy abortions in hospitals but the figure of 10,021 does not; the number of early-pregnancy abortions in 2023 that were in the community setting, that is, general practitioners, family planning clinics and women's health clinics; the number that were in hospitals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24004/25]

Carol Nolan (Offaly, Independent)
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1124. To ask the Minister for Health her views on whether the current system of reporting abortion numbers based on abortion notifications from general practitioners, family planning clinics and women’s health clinics is seriously inadequate, with a large number of notifications being received late or not at all, and many of those that are received being incomplete; to undertake to change the system in order that the HSE payment for each abortion is delayed until a fully completed notification of that abortion is received by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24005/25]

Carol Nolan (Offaly, Independent)
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1125. To ask the Minister for Health if she will include HSE abortion payment data for 2024 in the Department of Health abortion report due to be published end June 2025, specifically the number of payments of €300 to general practitioners, family planning clinics and women's health clinics in 2024, and the number of €100 payments to these same providers for post-hospital medical abortion patients who presented initially at nine to 12 weeks' gestation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24006/25]

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 1123 to 1125, inclusive, together.

The notification procedure for termination of pregnancy is set out in primary legislation. 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 me, as 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, including the location in which the termination of pregnancy was carried out, is notified to the Minister.