Kevin Moran (Longford-Westmeath, Independent) | Oireachtas source

We hope to get it back into the Dáil fairly shortly. I stress to members, as I have in the Dáil, that it has taken three years to get the Bill to where it is today. I fully appreciate the amendments before us, but tens of thousands of people have campaigned for this, and some of them have been on the Deputy's doorstep and mine. We are a minority Government and do not know what will happen next. This legislation could be enacted as quickly as before the summer, but to delay it and go back to get a legal opinion could mean that it might never see the light of day. The people out there are asking us, as legislators, to do this, and this Bill will help those people. I respect what the Deputy says, but we should look at it.