Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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I thank the Chair, and I thank Deputy Cullinane for the question. I brought the report to Cabinet yesterday. The Irish Timesdid have it up, and it is obviously very well informed. We are putting it up publicly today, and obviously sending it to this committee for consideration.

My ask of Government yesterday was that the report would be referred to this committee, so it will be referred to members today. The committee will be asked to report back to Government, presumably through me, on the legislative proposals. Obviously, the committee will take a view on some of the operational recommendations as well, and the committee will decide its own scope on what members want to cover. The piece on which I would really value detailed engagement with the committee is the legislative recommendations. There are ten or 11 legislative recommendations. Some are pretty straightforward; others will, I think, be quite sensitive, like the three-day wait for example. It is going to require the kind of solid, reasoned, respectful debate that this committee did in the previous Dáil regarding the original legislation.