Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 17 January 2024
1597. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health the total number of terminations carried out under ss. 9-12 of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018, by the Ireland East Hospital Group for 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57164/23]
View answerUnder 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. 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 and arrange for its publication."
The following information is recorded and sent to the Minister:
• 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.
All of the above information has been published in the Annual Reports for years the 2019-2022, which have can be found at www.gov.ie/en/collection/c26b8-annual-reports-on-notifications-in-accordance-with-the-health-regulation-of-termination-of-pregnancy-act-2018/
