Paul Bradford (Fine Gael)

I, too, welcome the Minister of State. I welcome the introduction of this legislation. As has been stated by previous speakers, it follows up the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010. The commitment was given by the then Government and the incoming Government obviously had no difficulty in putting in place the legislation promised at that stage.

The previous speaker used the phrase, "A lot done, a lot more to do", as an indication of where the Bill was coming from politically. I suppose we could also think of another Fianna Fáil phrase, "an Irish solution to an Irish problem."