Jennifer Murnane O'Connor (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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I spoke about the timescale of the Bill. While I welcome that, we as a committee need to move forward with this. One of the most significant issues with this is the timescale. Could the Minister maybe look at putting a timescale on it, even though we are addressing witnesses here? We cannot be in a situation in six months or a year where this has not gone through the Dáil. I ask that this be a priority. I know that our committee will make it a priority. I ask that we get it through as quickly as possible. We as a committee have made that commitment.

The Minister said that information about counselling services is on the website. I thank him for that. Has there been much uptake of these services? That is important. We need to have more awareness and information. I feel that that is where we fall down. What is the uptake? Does the Minister think that we need to have more communications and awareness about this?