Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Department is telling us this today. If in six months we and the Department have much more data, that will push the case. I agree the process has to be incremental, strategic and equitable in all regards. If we do not start the process, however, we will never get anywhere. I accept that this is not the end of the process. It is, however, the beginning of moving the process on from where it is stuck now. I call Deputy Breathnach.