Ivana Bacik (Independent)

-----to see nearly one in five French voters voting number one for the National Front. That is a real wake-up call to all of us.

I acknowledge this is an unusual idea but I ask the Leader that we might have a debate in 12 months time on the progress in the year since the passing of the Bill to prohibit female genital mutilation, FGM, which legislation was initiated in this House. I note that today in England a major investigation has been announced of two doctors operating in London and in the west midlands who appear to have been operating some sort of an FGM ring. More than 150 young women and girls have come forward to make complaints that FGM was being performed on them by doctors against British law but at the behest of the parents of the girls. It is a real worry that this practice is still being carried out in England despite the criminal law. It would be worthwhile our debating in this House in a year's time what steps have been taken by the HSE and the State, in the wake of the passing of the legislation prohibiting FGM, to ensure the practice is no longer tolerated in Ireland.