Paschal Donohoe (Fine Gael)

I join others in welcoming the Minister to the House. I will focus on two different areas. The first is, as others have mentioned, the time we were given to consider this legislation, and the second is the nature of the co-location proposals before us, which has been mentioned by all previous speakers. However, I will first respond to some of the points made by Government speakers, particularly Senator Feeney. Since I joined the Seanad only a number of months ago, I have been struck by the consistently high quality of contributions from Senators on all sides of the House. If the repetition of sincere views by people on this side of the House is found to be nauseating by the Senator, that is the kind of attitude that makes me even more suspicious of the legislation before us.