Having been a member of the All-Party Committee on the Constitution, which considered the abortion issue, I believe it was to the credit of Members of both Houses that those hugely difficult issues were dealt with in such a dispassionate and compassionate way. I particularly applaud the work of Deputy Brian Lenihan as chairman of that committee, which guides my views on this particular issue. It would be most unfortunate that these issues should be politicised. They have to be dealt with on an ethical, legal and technical basis and they involve very difficult questions. It would be quite outrageous to politicise an issue of this nature for purely naked political reasons. I hope that will not occur and, on the basis of my past experience, I am confident it will not.