It was with dismay I saw that there are 180 Committee Stage amendments to the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018. There is public disgust about these amendments. I am also disgusted about them. Let us take one in particular. It is impossible to carry out a burial of remains before 12 weeks. There are no remains. It is just menstrual blood. Are we going to follow women around? What will happen after 12 weeks? After that amount of time, the overwhelming majority of women really want children and now eight Deputies have put down 180 amendments to delay the Bill.

The Deputies have that right. The legislation is before a select committee of the Dáil. In due course, it will come before this House and the Senator can make her comments appropriately. The select committee is sitting as we speak. It will also be sitting tomorrow and the day after. The legislation will eventually come before this House and I will allow Senator Devine to comment as much as possible at that point. However, it is not right to interfere with the work of the select committee or to denigrate somebody's well-intentioned amendments.

I am speaking for the public. I am speaking about the dismay and the last sting of eight dying wasps-----

This Bill is not before us. It is before a select committee made up of Deputies, not Senators. I suggest that Senator Devine allow them to do their work. When the Bill comes before us in due course, she will have ample time to speak on the issues that are close to her heart.

I will leave it there. I also wanted to raise the statement issued by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, earlier to the effect that the nurses and midwives will be balloted on all-out strike action, commencing with a 24-hour all-out strike and building up over time. The ballot will be held over the next few weeks. At issue here are understaffing in the health service and the failure of recruitment and retention efforts. The decision to ballot followed a rejection by 94% of the INMO's membership of the recent Government proposal on pay.

There are 2,600 fewer nurses in our health services. They feel as though they have been forced down this path. I hope the Government will listen and that the pay commission will step in as soon as possible to prevent this from happening to our patients and our nurses who are trying to run this chaotic service.

I also wish to raise the report by the National Women's Council of Ireland, Out of Silence, which was published today. The report represents research and reflection on women's health from their own perspectives and in their own words. It is quite lengthy. It features the astounding information that child suicide among girls in Ireland is the highest in Europe. I knew the level was high, but I did not realise it was the highest. After everyone has read and considered the report, we should, as Senator Freeman said, include it on the agenda of the Committee on the Future of Mental Health Care once that has been made permanent.

I thank the Senator for respecting my ruling and call Senator Norris.