Emer Higgins (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Yes, I will get to the amendment in a moment. Utilising, as I said, the lived experience and the legal knowledge of colleagues across that committee, including Senator Mary Seery Kearney, with the help of campaigners and expert witnesses, who gave powerful testimony, we put together a very comprehensive report, which has informed the Bill, and from which many amendments that were tabled during this debate were discussed. I stood with so many of those witnesses and families on the plinth of Leinster House on the morning the report was launched. The raw emotion, the tears and the relief are something I will never forget, and I am really pleased they have helped us get to where we are today. These people, as the Minister knows, have fought for years, often before the birth of their deeply wanted and much-loved child, for legal recognition of their families' rights. While I absolutely welcome these much-needed and long-awaited changes-----

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