Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Possibly. Once we have the report I will bring it to the Government and the health committee. The Government, the Oireachtas and the health committee will discuss all the issues and then decide what they want to do. We do not yet know what the recommendations will be. The point I was making is that if we take the 12 weeks, for example, which is in the legislation, this review is not starting from the point of asking whether 12 weeks is the right period of time. That is a matter of policy that has been agreed by the Oireachtas, so that is not what it is doing. However, possibly, as part of the consultation, there are operational difficulties. We have no idea what will come out of this, but let us say we were to hear from service providers that they struggled to be able to ascertain exactly when 12 weeks was and, for example, the GPs were nervous about going to 12 weeks and were therefore tending to err on the side of much more conservative judgments in terms of the length of the pregnancy, there might be recommendations emerging from that.