David Cullinane: “The current system is unfair and inconsistent. We need one national policy. The Government should fund a phased end to…”

When a woman is certain that this is what she wants, it allows her to make that decision for herself in her own time, about her own pregnancy without a mandatory delay.

These community waiting lists are on top of almost one million people already waiting for care in our acute hospital.

This cannot become another HSE review that produces a report while the underlying problems remain.

More than 200,000 people are currently waiting for some form of outpatient appointment in hospitals across Ireland.