Everyone in the House will recognise the bravery of Ms Bláthnaid Raleigh who waived her right to anonymity in a traumatic trial. An issue highlighted in the case related to the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act, which allows counsellors’ notes as admissible evidence. Victims’ rights groups have highlighted this threat of admissibility as making victims think twice before taking a case. England is pursuing new legislation to provide extra protections in this regard. Will our Government go further and prohibit fully the inclusion of victims’ counselling records in trials? I am sure the Taoiseach will agree that we cannot have people’s right to pursue justice, but also their right to pursue health restoration, impacted by the current legislation.

I agree with Deputy Shanahan fully and I join with him in praising her courage. I thank Ms Bláthnaid Raleigh for speaking out yesterday after enduring the most horrific and unimaginable assault. There are no words to capture what she went through. Her words when she spoke out yesterday, including about the need for men to speak out and the lack of men speaking out on this, are words that should ring right throughout this House and throughout Irish society today. I know we all agree on that.

I fully agree with the Deputy on the issue of counselling notes and the like. I was trying to find the details in my own notes, but I understand that the Minister intends to outlaw it. I will get the Deputy a more detailed note on the matter.