Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I understand this decision was made by the Charities Regulator, not the Government, and I assume the Charities Regulator would have taken the same approach or attitude had it been a pro-life or anti-abortion mural. I have no doubt but that the mural will appear elsewhere. Someone who owns a private building may wish to make the space available for the mural to be reinstated. Perhaps even the fact that it has been removed means more people saw it than might have otherwise seen it had it not been removed. While one can paint over a mural, one certainly cannot paint over an issue. The issue is that nine women every day in Ireland are forced to travel overseas to end their pregnancies and three women in Ireland every day - the number will only rise into the future - import pills online and take them without medical supervision and guidance, often in their own homes. What we are putting to the people on 25 May is an opportunity to change this, to stop turning a blind eye, to stop turning a cold shoulder, to face up to the reality of abortion in Ireland and to change our Constitution in order that we can provide those services that many women need in our own country.

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