Mr. Muiris O'Connor:

Yes. Deputy Shortall's feedback was valuable with the suggestion of a centralised log of recordings so that multiple instances in different locations or attempts to be evasive in relation to it would be found.

The issue of gender-neutral language is a complex area. It was always the intention that a biologically female individual who identifies as a male would enjoy the same rights as a woman for the purposes of the 2018 Act. This would also be our intention around safe access zones. There is complexity around deviating from language in other legislation around this. We are also looking at this.

We are conscious of the issues around harassment, the advice to go abroad, and the interpretation of harassment, but it must be balanced against proportionality and implementability. As the Deputy will see in head 6, we are reminded that harassment is forbidden in all circumstances to protect providers from the kind of intimidation that could happen quite regularly and that could happen well outside the physical space of the 100 m zone. The Deputy will be well aware of the various mechanisms on social media that can be used to harass and intimidate service providers. We will be as broad as we can about that harassment, which comes under head 6. We must be quite refined with the zone and the definition, and we are doing a lot of work to get specific on the prohibitive actions within the zones. I thank the Deputy.