Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Can the Taoiseach indicate when the legislation on exclusion zones will be forthcoming? I saw at the weekend, as I think everyone did - and it is not just this weekend but every weekend - that women are being intimidated when they try to go into their local general practices and that general practitioners are being intimidated by people protesting outside those practices. This is not acceptable. We were promised legislation on exclusion zones, we were told it would be a priority. We are close to the Easter recess and we still have no idea when the legislation will be introduced. This matter should have been dealt with when we were debating the regulation of termination of pregnancies legislation and it was not, although some of us stated at the time that we should have done it all together. The reason this was not done was that we were told we would have legislation on exclusion zones early in the new year. It is now almost the middle of the year. How long will we have to wait before the legislation is brought forward?

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