Kieran O'Donnell (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I wish to be associated with the remarks on this historic moment. I acknowledge what it means for the deaf community and wider society to acknowledge formally something that needed to be righted. From dealing with the deaf community in Limerick, I know how passionately they feel about this. I commend Senators Mark Daly and Lorraine Clifford-Lee and their team on this as well as the Minister of State for supporting the Bill. The key thing now is to get it into the Dáil to be enacted and implemented as quickly as possible. This is about a set of principles becoming a set of practices.