Feargal Quinn (Independent) | Oireachtas source

However, all he is doing is putting into operation something that we, the people of Ireland, agreed to in 1979. Therefore, much more could be done. One person, one vote, should be the future for Seanad elections. It can be done easily. Senators Crown and Zappone have proposed Bills which allow for this change. We must urge the Taoiseach to proceed in this area and this is the ideal opportunity to do so. The subject was raised yesterday in the other House and it also reached the Cabinet.

I refer to a Bill on the provision of defibrillators in busy places which has been adjourned. This week a Bill was passed in Manitoba on the same matter. They have looked at what we planned to do here but they have put it into law. I ask the Leader to invite the Minister for Health to come to the House. He did not seem to have any objection to the Bill but it has been put on the long finger, as are so many other things. Let us get that finger moving.