Brendan Ryan (Labour)

I wish to pose a question that, I suspect, will also be close to Senator Quinn's heart. The Minister states the Bill is the product of 30 years of effort. Surely some of its provisions could be brought into force within a guaranteed timeframe of anywhere from three months to a year. I do not hold with the practice of not laying down time limits for fear something might happen. The Houses of the Oireachtas will have debated the legislation at length. In that context, surely the sections dealing with reading glasses could be subject to a more rigid timescale. This open-ended provision is bad practice.