Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That announcement was welcome but we will monitor progress closely. We will table parliamentary questions and we will raise this issue again and again in the House until all the legislative provisions have been implemented. If the Government parties takes the decision to vote our Bill down, we will hold them to account throughout the year. We will pursue this legislation until it is enacted to make sure all of us send a message to the public that the days of the CRC golden handshakes and the other issues that emerged are over and they can have full confidence in the sector to represent them again. I hope that even at the last minute the Government will seriously consider supporting the Bill. There is no good reason to vote it down other than it was tabled by Sinn Féin. I do not understand that because that is not right.

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