Fintan Warfield (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I offer Sinn Féin's support to the proposal that we sit on Monday afternoon as it would allow Senators to travel from their respective areas. I welcome the passing of the legislation in the Dáil last night and I hope we can have a respectful debate. We should not forget that, since the decisive vote on 25 May, more than 1,600 people have travelled overseas for an abortion, and 550 have imported safe but illegal abortion pills. The reality of the eighth amendment continues and hopefully we can make improvements to the Bill next week.