Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I cannot yet give a timeline for the introduction of legislation to establish an agency to bring together all the various strands and deal with the wider issue of violence, including sexual violence, against women. That is one aspect of it. We will work with the Oireachtas committee. Obviously, in advance of seeing recommendations, I do not think it is wise to commit to implement them. We have not seen those recommendations yet and we have to allow that process to happen. We are committed to the recommendations contained in the report of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality and, of course, to working constructively and positively with the committee the Deputy chairs.

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