Denis O'Donovan (Fianna Fail)

I concur with those remarks. Reflecting on my first year as a law student, I had to do Roman law, jurisprudence, legal history going back to the Magna Carta and so on. Perhaps we are giving today's law students too much of a soft option in that they do not have to do so much research. I should be worried lest they get lazy, because they will not have to put in the effort we had to in our day. Having said that, I sincerely welcome the Bill and thank all those involved, including the Law Reform Commission. It is mind boggling to consider that some of the statutes repealed here are 1,000 years old.