Mark Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I support Senator Crown. It shows the national democratic deficit and dysfunctional nature of the legislative process in this House that when a Member with such a reputation as Senator Crown brings forward legislation that will protect children from the harmful effects of smoking, over a year later it has not progressed an inch. If one wants Members to make a legislative contribution, there is nobody better than Senator Crown on an issue which he knows better than anybody else. However, the bureaucrats in this institution will not allow it to happen. It is dysfunctional government of the highest order.