Joe O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I thank Senator Sherlock. She is aware of the legislative process and the steps involved in it. The key first step is obviously to bring the proposal to the Cabinet and the Minister has committed to doing that in the next few weeks. The complicating factor behind the Senator's question is that it has been part of a wider review of equality legislation. We want to bring a suite of measures to the Cabinet to make sure we make a comprehensive review and refreshing of the needs of a variety of groups under equality legislation. That has possibly slowed the process down a little bit but we want to do it right when we do it.