Willie O'Dea (Limerick East, Fianna Fail)

The Senator quoted from various documents. I understand where he is coming from but, unfortunately, the people who submitted these proposals do not have a monopoly of wisdom. We have received an equal, if not greater, amount of representations from the other side. There is the continuing question of sovereignty. The Senator decried our decision to take the United Kingdom model but we are not accepting it in its totality – our model is much better. Sometimes even the British get it right. The Senator is suggesting we use the Swedish model but the British model has just as good a chance of being right as the Swedish one.