David Norris (Independent)

We have been challenged to say what we have done and we can answer in broad sweeps, each for ourselves. In my case, I refer to the significant amendment of the Child Care Bill some years ago, the initial legislative provision and debate about the metro for Dublin, the first real authoritative debates on AIDS, the Civil Partnership Bill, the establishment of the foreign affairs committee and the trenchant debates on the Iraq war and the dismantling of the Combat Poverty Agency and the Equality Authority. All of my colleagues will have similar lists and I invite them to place them before the House, alas not this evening, since the debate is concluding, but in what will be a continuing debate that will form part of the record of this noble Chamber of the Oireachtas.