Enda Kenny’s weekly email message to Fine Gael members includes this paragraph on the cabinet decision on legislating for X.

The aim of Government here is to include clarity and legal certainty in relation to determining whether a termination of pregnancy is permissible in cases where there is a real and substantial risk to the life, as distinct from the health, of a woman as a result of that pregnancy. The process will also take full account of the equal right of life of the unborn child. An extensive debate on this sensitive and complex issue will take place in the New Year.