Ms Janice Donlon:

With any potential changes in legislation we can certainly dial up those services we currently fund to meet additional demand for counselling services and so on. We have the ability to look at that. We are also considering introducing a national telephone counselling system next year, which we hope will improve access to counselling for a larger cohort of women. If legislation is changed and if there is a requirement to provide termination services in the State, the services we fund would be able to respond accordingly.