Marie Moloney (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I wish to add my voice in welcoming this Bill. The children in the Gallery are witnessing history in the making, as this legislation will benefit them and their peers because children will no longer be in cars where people are smoking. At earlier Stages I mentioned that when my son was about four, my father-in-law was smoking in the car and I did not have the courage to tell him to stop but my son had that courage. He said "Grandad, stop smoking in the car. It is horrible and I hate it." That woke me up because he was right and from then I asked people not to smoke in the car. Such things come from the mouths of babes.

It is great to see this become law in Ireland. As others have stated, I hope the Minister will ensure this gets through the Dáil as quickly as possible in order to be enforced. I congratulate the Senators who brought it forward and if they did nothing else in this term, they would still have done a great favour to the children of Ireland.