The Minister for Education has ordered an investigation into an allegation that the prolife group, Life, had shown schoolchildren videos of abortion operations.
Mr Martin was responding to an article in yesterday's Sunday Independent, which said teenagers in a Dublin school had been shown an "explicit video" depicting abortion operations.
He said the information passed on to his Department was extremely disturbing, and he asked his officials to follow it up and seek an explanation from the school involved. He said he would consider whether further guidelines should be issued to schools.