Opposition stages walkout over lack of IVF legislation

OPPOSITION parties staged a walkout of an Oireachtas committee yesterday in protest at the Government’s lack of progress in introducing legislation to regulate IVF treatment.

Fine Gael health spokesman Liam Twomey joined his Labour counterpart Liz McManus and independent senator Mary Henry in objecting to proposals by the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health to defer issuing a final report on the subject until it held a further series of public consultation.