Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

We need to know that we are not getting a short Bill that, in typical McDowell fashion, will turn into an octopus as it develops. The urgency has been well enunciated this morning. I suggested to the Tánaiste, and the Labour Party Bill is available to her, that we would seek to legislate on an interim basis to shut off the loophole while the House and the country is having the necessary wider public debate. It is a wider and complex debate. There will be different and quite legitimate views in the House. On the question of young children being exposed and vulnerable——

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