Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

If Senator Craughwell is in government some day, I perish to think that he will take advice from anybody. I look forward to that day, although not really. However, I am working with Senator Lawless and the Department to bring the Bill back before the House. It is subject to events, but both I and the Minister, to be fair, are endeavouring to have it back here.

Senator Conway-Walsh spoke about a motion she is putting before the House tomorrow and Senator Paul Daly raised the issue with regard to agriculture. I commend Senator Paul Daly on his approach to this. To be fair to him, he did not try to play naked politics last week, as the Senator did. Last week I offered to invite the Minister to the House for the Sinn Féin Members. They refused that offer. I am offering it again now to the Sinn Féin Party and particularly to Senator Paul Daly, because he is right that it is a much broader and wider part-----