Caít Keane (Fine Gael)

I welcome the Minister to the House. This is a transforming day for Irish politics and I will be supporting the amendments to the Bill, which will bring more transparency and accountability to politics. We will now know about people who make donations on behalf of others, we will see names, addresses, receipts and so forth. This shows that the Minister is committed to ensuring that there is total transparency in how politics in general is funded. It is a great day for politics when we can say that everything that is donated will be accounted for and receipted, even if it is donated on behalf of another person. Hopefully this will mean we will not have any more tribunals of inquiry. Had this Bill been enacted seven to ten years ago we would not have had tribunals nor incurred their considerable cost.