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15th June 2018
11:53am BST
“I’m determined to do something about this in terms of exclusion zones. “Women need to use our maternity services and they need to be able to use them in a way that is not in any way impeded by people carrying out protests."
The minister also lamented that the Rotunda had to issue a warning to anyone entering or leaving the hospital.
He said:
“The idea that a maternity hospital would have to take to Twitter to issue guidance to women attending our maternity hospitals to make them aware of the fact that there were people protesting with vulgar images should be a cause of great concern for any decent person in this country regardless of their view on the eighth amendment."Ireland's referendum to repeal the eighth amendment was passed on May 26 by a landslide victory for the 'Yes' vote.
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