Mr. Muiris O'Connor:

The Deputy has pretty much summarised the motivation for the safe access Bill. It is to ensure the privacy and safety of service users and service providers are protected. As for accessing services in a timely manner, a key part of that is ensuring availability of these services on a widespread basis as a core part of primary care and secondary care, as appropriate.

Issues relating to the termination of pregnancy Act are currently subject to intensive external review by Marie O'Shea. She will be looking at all those issues, including the geographical dispersal or current services, the views of service users and providers, the providers' experience of delivering the service in the early phase and any guidance on the extent to which the services are operating consistent with the intentions of, as the Deputy said, the will of the people and the will of these Houses as expressed in the Act.