Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

I do not want to delay but I will make one brief statement. There are ancillary recommendations from the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution. I did not submit amendments to them in the interests of getting this legislation passed speedily. What is being advocated here is straying into that territory. I have no problem with that. This committee has a right to do that. There are, however, things like sex education on which we have a Bill still stuck on Second Stage. The Minister might move it along. I refer also to free contraception. They are all related. Perhaps we can reserve the right to put them in on Report Stage, if only for the historical record. This has to go through the Seanad as well after it comes back here in two weeks or whatever. Perhaps we can get a timeline. We did not put in all of the elements referred to in the interests of getting this Bill passed by December. Can we speed this Bill up in the interests of women and pregnant people who desperately need it?