Mark Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We will also be putting forward amendments. I thank the Minister of State for coming into the House and I thank all the colleagues for their support. I thank those who spoke on the amendments and I thank Senator Martin Conway who has always been very supportive of the issue of sign language recognition in the past.

I and members of the deaf community and colleagues here would be delighted to engage with the Minister of State again to see if we can reach consensus. We may not agree on everything but we must try to get this through before the summer. We will then bring it into the Dáil and try to make sure that we have a Bill that works and that is practical and reasonable. I look forward to that debate and I thank the Minister of State for coming into the House and his officials for the many meetings. We have not agreed on some things but I think that we have progressed things a bit. We have a long way to go, however, to get this across the line as something that will work for the deaf community.