Gerald Nash (Labour) | Oireachtas source

-----to transforming attitudes in this House and introducing and supporting transformative legislation. It has made our country a better, fairer, more tolerant and more progressive place.

I also welcome those who are present in the Public Gallery this evening. Campaigners for LGBTI rights have put their collective and individual shoulders to the wheel for decades to transform this society and change legislation but, most importantly, to change attitudes to LGBTI people in this Republic. I thank them for their work, their continuing efforts, for everything they do and for the courageous risks many of them have taken over the years in their fight to vindicate the rights I take for granted.