Mary White (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Minister. I wish to place my cards on the table by congratulating him on the initiative he has taken in the context of including quotas for women in the legislation. Ministers and politicians in general usually only have one or two opportunities during their lifetime to carve their names in stone. The Minister will be remembered for the initiative to which I refer. I am of the view that he should be Ireland's next European Commissioner on the basis of his achievement on behalf of the women of Ireland.