Jerry Buttimer (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is called empowering people as well. I will conclude on this because my time is nearly up. In enshrining what one wants to do, the most important point is to get a debate going on it. In my opinion, we barely tipped on it in the Constitutional Convention and it was probably the second best weekend of the convention. The reason was we empowered and educated people who did not really understand what this was about and who in some cases, in my opinion, were afraid of it. I am advocating that we take Deputy Pringle's Bill to Committee-----

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