Averil Power (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There is no need to do that. We have cross-party support across the House. I know there are Members in the Government parties who feel strongly about this as well and want to progress it as much as I do. I would be happy to have input from the Minister if he has amendments to suggest on Committee Stage, or if the health committee, interest groups or anyone else wants to feed into that. My intention is that we continue as a House to progress this legislation, to take Committee Stage. I hope that colleagues will embrace that process and work with us. We need to put aside the typical old politics of Government versus Opposition and all work together on this. As I said at the start, this is a particularly important area that should be far above party politics. We should all be putting our heads together and working on it. I welcome the two Government spokespersons' statements to that effect at the outset and I look forward to working with them.