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Question from Deputy Mattie McGrath - PQ 20434-26

Deputy McGrath asked about if babies received any medical or nursing interventions with the aim of sustaining life. Read the HSE response.

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Summary

To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 958 of 18 November 2025, which confirmed that at least four babies were born alive after abortion who had reached 24 weeks gestation or 500g birthweight and were not diagnosed with major congenital anomalies, whether these babies received any medical or nursing interventions with the aim of sustaining life, or received only palliative care; the interventions that were used to offer life-sustaining care; whether a neonatologist examined the babies and advised on their care; whether the treatment and care of these babies would have been more comprehensive, had they not been delivered through an abortion procedure; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

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