John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is right but they will bear with me on this.

Robert Hockett has written to me as Chairman and I will circulate the letter. I want to acknowledge that he as a professor at Cornell University Law School in New York expresses his support for the National Housing Co-op Bill 2017 in either its present or some suitably amended form and he is willing to assist the committee and the group in developing this Bill so that it passes through the House reasonably quickly, if that is at all possible. I know it is a challenge for all political parties and none, including mine, to grasp the detail of this Bill and to work to put it across the line. I ask for their support and cooperation in this because time is of the essence. We will revisit this and have a deeper debate on it.