Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----what I am trying to say is the Bill that the Deputies have brought before the House is a positive step in the right direction of addressing hate crime. It is not a perfect Bill but I hope it will be by the time we all work together on it at Committee Stage. I hope Deputy Jonathan O'Brien and his party will come along with us to bring it through to Committee Stage. We owe it to the people who put us here because they need an input, they need their voices on this Bill and they need protection.

I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for allowing me the opportunity to speak.

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