Duncan Smith (Dublin Fingal East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

There is certainly a sense when it comes to something as stark and as horrible as what is happening there that we can feel a bit impotent in our part of the world to help in a tangible way. My sense, with regard to the Senator’s Bill, is that politicians and activists feel they have something tangible they can do. It will not solve everything. As the Senator said, it is modest but important. That is the perfect way of summing it up.

In the opening statements, an argument was made. We are hearing that, in respect of keeping services out of the Bill, on legal advice and politically, there is no policy difference per se that the Government has with those of us who want services included. It is political will as opposed to a legal question. Can the Senator expand on that and explain what is meant by that?