Rose Conway Walsh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will not keep going until 7 p.m. I am not at all comfortable with us not using the tools available to us here today. If we were to push any of the amendments to a vote, we would win the vote with the support of the House against the Government. It is a serious matter and it does not sit well with me that we are not using those tools. I respect the collective decision of the House not to push the amendments to a vote today.

I do so in good faith, and I have good faith that this will be done in a timely manner, that the Attorney General will realise that and the Government and Taoiseach realise we have not pushed the amendments to a vote today specifically because we trust the Bill will be addressed in a timely and efficient manner. We will be back here in September. There is nothing surer than that somebody else will have lost his or her life through domestic violence. That is a very heavy burden for us to carry going out of here today.