Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

I join the Minister in thanking you, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, for guiding the conclusion of the Bill, and I thank the Minister's officials. This is reforming legislation for which Members on this side of the House have campaigned for six or seven years. It is not perfect. No legislation is. I would have preferred some matters to have taken a different direction. Nevertheless, it is worthwhile.

I thank the Minister for his co-operation in the prosecution of the Bill and acknowledge that this may be the last time he takes Report Stage of a Bill in the House. We do not know.

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