Diarmuid Wilson (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Minister and wish her well in the excellent work she is doing in the Department. I am speaking on behalf of my colleague, Senator Leyden, who is unfortunately obliged to attend another meeting and cannot be present. I support Senator van Turnhout's amendment. We welcome the explicit inclusion of the best interests of the child principle in the Bill, but, as Senator van Turnhout said, it could be strengthened by including the wording of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.