Marcella Corcoran Kennedy (Offaly, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----but we do have a process in place to review this provision. I ask that we give the Citizens' Assembly the time it needs to consider the issue and report back to the Oireachtas. It is on that basis that the Government moves its reasoned amendment in order that the Citizens' Assembly, established by resolutions of Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann, can conclude its deliberations on the eighth amendment prior to further consideration of potential legislative change, including to the existing penalties set out in the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013, and report to the Oireachtas or an Oireachtas committee in the first half of 2017.

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