Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

As the Minister knows and as Deputy Tóibín said succinctly, the Government and the public are very far apart on this. We discussed this issue and my belief is that irrespective of the legal issue, which is a complex one we must park for today, there is a need for people to sit around a table, express the different views and try to build a consensus. Will the Minister consider some process of engaging with all the different views, including the different views among the political parties, many of which do not share the Government's view on this, to see if we can move this forward in a way that satisfies the vast majority of people? In my view, the Government has lost public opinion on this one.

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