Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I would love to see that happen. It depends on the time the Joint Committee on Health is able to give over to the Bill. I am conscious the committee has a huge amount of work on its plate but hopefully it will give over the time. I will get it over to it for its review shortly.

We need to do the retrospective element as part of the legislation. It is really important. Like Deputy Funchion and many other colleagues, I have met the parents, the mums and dads, and the kids. It is going to be a great day when we pass this legislation and rightly recognise these children, their rights and the rights of their parents. It will be a very important day and it will happen this year. I know people have been waiting a long time. We need to do it as part of the legislation so it is robust and on a statutory basis.

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