Patrick Costello (Dublin South Central, Green Party)
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1000. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40414/23]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 977 and 1000 together.

The Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023 has been initiated in the Houses and is currently at second stage in Dail Eireann. Subject to the Parliamentary timetable it is my intention to progress this legislation through the Houses as expeditiously as possible and to have it enacted by the end of the year. At this juncture it is expected that Committee stage will taken in late October.