James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I again thank the committee for helping the passage of this very important Bill. I would like to be associated with the Chairman's comments about former Senator Pádraig Ó Céidigh and his team, who brought this Bill to the Seanad in the first place and helped bring this about. Perjury is an offence but is very rarely prosecuted. Putting perjury on the Statute Book will help bring about prosecutions where necessary for people who are lying in courts and in processes and are undermining justice.

It will hopefully also act as a deterrent to anyone doing that in the first place.

I thank the Chair and the committee and former Senator Pádraig Ó Céidigh