Kathleen O'Meara (Labour)

I acknowledge Senator Finucane for sharing his time.

We will not hold up this legislation as we recognise the urgency of it. There is agreement on the principles of the legislation and there is no need to hold it up. There are some Government amendments but there is no necessity to be long winded. As the Minister said, this Bill has had to be disconnected from the other related legislation for the purposes of meeting this deadline and that is totally acceptable.