Martin Conway (Fine Gael)

That is a clear example of why we need a referendum to ensure that children's and young people's rights are enshrined in the Constitution. Successive governments have failed the children of this country. I commend the Minister, Deputy Fitzgerald, in her quest to ensure that the constitutional amendment will receive broad support and that the referendum will happen in 2012 to enshrine the rights of children in the Constitution once and for all.