The Taoiseach is promising a number of amendments to the abortion legislation will go through in the Dáil next week.

The comments from Enda Kenny come as more than 100 proposed changes were already lodged ahead of the report stage of the legislation.

Just 17 out of 89 amendments at committee stage were accepted by the Health Minister. And already dozens of changes - many from the rebel TDs who lost the whip - have been put down.

But the Taoiseach's signalled that only those put forward by the Department of Health will go through, saying "The two Ministers - I don't have the details in front of me now - may have entered a number of amendments dealing with clarification to the Bill, and they will propose to move on with those" he said.

"Obviously there will be a series of votes on amendments next week" he added.

So where this leaves European Affairs Minister Lucinda Creighton is unclear. She has demanded substantive changes.

Enda Kenny declared earlier this legislation is about all the women of Ireland and not any one individual.