Marc MacSharry (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Minister and thank him for his comments. An historic thing happened before he entered this House today, which he mentioned. I ask him to assure the House that instead of treating this engagement as little more than superficiality, he intends to bring forward legislative proposals, as voted for by his colleagues, to put this squarely in the ownership of the people. The Minister's Fine Gael colleagues did not see fit to support that motion and, clearly, they have different views. It is clear they are not as committed as the Minister's colleagues appear to be in the context of having this in the ownership of the people. I hope that whenever the Minister has finished laughing, he might listen to the point-----