Terry Leyden (Fianna Fail)

I want to place on record my appreciation and admiration for the Minister for being so attentive to this legislation. I have listened to almost all the contributions. Although the members of the largest Opposition party, Fine Gael, have strong reservations about the Bill, they have endeavoured to improve it to the best of their ability. I commend them and the Labour Party for their efforts. They could have ignored it and walked out, saying they were not going to participate in the legislation. They have done better than that because they have given the opportunity to the Minister to consider aspects of the Bill, which has been very worthwhile. I compliment all our colleagues in the Seanad on what has been an extremely good and very informative debate. I am sure the Minister would agree we have done the State some service in this regard.