You are attacking Ukrainians who live here. We are defending Ukrainians.

I asked about the Board of Peace.

Are you going on the Board of Peace?

I want to register how ludicrously short a time we have on this discussion. Seriously, we have five speakers here getting a minute and a bit each - madness.

I know, but we are a minority on that. The Minister is not even here, which frequently happens by the time our group comes up.

Yes, I know.

I know but it has to be said-----

I am not going to get a chance to bring up all the infrastructural needs of my constituency. There are 140,000 people. We have no light rail system. I will just mention one area which is the Tyrrelstown and Hollystown area. It is so symptomatic of the way developer-led planning happens in this country, which is one of the headings that is used in the strategy. Some 1,400 houses were recently added on in Hollystown, for example, but there is no direct bus route into the city centre. TDs outside Dublin may think we h…

I do not know whether there is any other law that imposes a three-day wait on any medical treatment. I do not know whether it applies when getting Viagra or rhinoplasty surgery. Forcing women to wait for a health treatment that is extremely time sensitive and very geographically difficult to access, where that wait is medically unnecessary, damaging and patronising and puts extra pressure on our health services, has to stop. Does the Minister agree with that?

To be frank, we should not really need consensus for an individual to get healthcare. It should not be up to men, predominantly, in the Dáil, or the State in general, to prevent women or pregnant people from accessing something for which the whole country voted. The Minister is right that we had telemedicine during the pandemic, and the sky did not fall in. In fact, telemedicine for abortion care has been shown to be exactly the same as visiting a doctor, and that was shown before the referendum as well. The Irish …

Consensus seems only to be necessary when it comes to the health, lives and choices of women. The Bill the Minister referenced was actually put forward in the previous Dáil by former Deputy, Bríd Smith.

That is no problem; I am just clarifying it. It was very undemocratic of TDs who had not debated that Bill - I had not debated it because I was not in the previous Dáil - just to block it. It should have been allowed to go forward for debate. My understanding is that all the provisions in the Bill were measures the citizens' assembly had proposed but that the politicians on the relevant committee, of which I was a member, were not willing to put forward. They were perfectly normal measures that the broad population…

It was a movement that achieved that, not this Dáil.

Sorry, a Cheann Comhairle. Is the speech available?

Sorry, on a point of order -----

----- this speech was sent out by Deputy Michael Lowry yesterday -----

----- to a constituent. We should have it here.

It was.

It was sent out yesterday by Deputy Michael Lowry to people.

If Deputy Lowry had it yesterday, the rest of us who are in here for the debate should have it.