The State has paid for two teenage girls in health board care to have abortions in Britain since the referendum on abortion last year.
The boards concerned are the South Eastern Health Board and the East Coast Area Health Board. They each took a girl in their care to the UK for an abortion last year but refused to give details of the circumstances.
They said they could not comment on individual cases.
Before travelling the boards secured court orders, according to a report in the Irish Examiner.
If young women in care have been victims of rape or incest, health boards can make court applications to take them abroad for abortions.
This follows court rulings in the X and C cases. In the X case, which centred on a 14-year-old Dublin girl who became pregnant as a result of rape, the Supreme Court ruled that an expectant mother had a right to an abortion if there was medical opinion that there was a substantial risk to her life, including a risk of suicide.
In the C case, which followed in 1997, the High Court ruled that there was a real and substantial risk to the life, as distinct from the health, of a 13-year-old girl who was in the care of the Eastern Health Board who became pregnant after she was raped while living in squalor on a Dublin camp site.
It said the risk would only be avoided by the termination of her pregnancy. The child was taken to England by the EHB for an abortion.
The Government tried to have the threat of suicide eliminated as grounds for abortion in last year's referendum but failed.