Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)

I thank Senators for their remarks. These are important issues and I look forward to debating them with Senators over time when we crystallise some of our proposals. For a long time in advance of the election, I had been working on these ideas, so it is nice to have a chance to put them into action. I spent too long developing legislative ideas that went into the waste bin after spending a year preparing them. It is nice, therefore, that ideas can now hopefully be crystallised.