Alex White (Dublin South, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The transposition of the directive was done by way of these regulations. All of the issues that Members state they want to see happen in the future can certainly be debated here and we would rely on the assistance of Senator Darragh O'Brien and his colleagues in improving the regime in the future, but what has been dealt with here is a more confined, highly important but nevertheless narrower agenda which has to do with safety and the matters that are contained within the directive itself. That is what we put into regulations. Senators should not turn their back on that. They should not throw out something that constitutes genuine progress and improves the situation in this country. I would ask the Senators opposite to reconsider their proposal to annul regulations which have been in place for almost a year.