Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

And it was not, because as Deputy O'Reilly may or may not have known, the co-chair of the task force is Peggy Maguire, the head of the European Institute of Women's Health, who at the launch said she had never seen anything in any other European country as comprehensive with regard to trying to co-ordinate women's health policy.

On the issue of the contraception report, I have not yet received the report. I expect to receive it in the coming days. I have a sense of what is in it but I have not yet received it. I believe that the Deputy has a sense of what is in it also. We need to do much better around the access to contraception. We need to arrive at a point where contraception is free. The Deputy asked if I will publish the report. I can see no reason I would not publish it. I would like to publish it and I would like to brief party spokespeople on it. Without having the report, I believe that we all know that if there is to be change in this area, it will require legislative change and a fair whack of funding. How we do both is something on which I would like to engage with the committee. I hope to get the report this week, in the next couple of days. I will let the Deputy know when I do.