Feargal Quinn (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Minister of State to the House. There has been a great deal of reference to the 1993 legislation and Dr. Manning. I voted in the Seanad that day and remember it well. There was much enthusiasm for what we were trying to do. We certainly had the impression that the Minister of the day, a County Meath man, would do something about it, but it never happened. Senator van Turnhout has explained that there is no breach of privacy, as no one in 1926 knew that there would be a constraint on the census. We should not be embarrassed about making the change.

I had the pleasure of having a mother-in-law who died almost two years ago at the age of almost 100-----