Ivana Bacik (Independent) | Oireachtas source

-----when other colleagues are trapped here, listening to a very lengthy leader's response to Members who are not here. With the permission of those who are here, I will just respond to those who are here, and if anyone listening on the monitor wants a response, they can come to the House. If I miss anyone, they can tell me.

On that basis, I will move to Senator Zappone. Again, I pay tribute to the Senator. She welcomed the result of the marriage equality referendum and spoke again of the incredible journey it has been for her personally and for Ann Louise Gilligan. I wish her the very best and want to say how moving her proposal was on television.

Senator Norris, with customary eloquence, spoke of referendum fatigue. I think he is quite right that the debate also has to move on. Again, I pay tribute to his enormous work on this. There is legislation still to come. We will have the marriage Bill before the end of July and there is also the Bill on section 37, which, as the House knows, is before the Seanad as a Private Members' Bill that I introduced two years ago.