Mary O'Rourke (Fianna Fail)

I welcome the Minister of State. This is a fine Bill, for which the Minister for Health and Children is to be praised. In the past six months there has been animosity towards him from vintners and members of political parties who saw fit to ask the Minister what he was doing and suggest he was getting too big for his boots, and so on. Nonetheless, the Minister stuck up for himself, stiffened his back and pursued it, the result of which has been good.

Pay no attention when Senator Feeney states that she is rarely out two nights in a row.