Terry Leyden (Fianna Fail)

The Joint Committee on Enterprise and Small Business discussed this matter on many occasions and came to the conclusion that if it was not broken, it should not be fixed because members feared the potential consequences.

The Minister commissioned an excellent report, for which 500 submissions were received, including two from Members of the Oireachtas, and had no alternative but to act on its recommendation that legislation be introduced. That took courage because it is difficult to introduce change. I am aware that Senator Coghlan has been nominated to this House by RGDATA. I commend him on that and hope that he is renominated because, as a good representative of RGDATA, he deserves it.