Kevin Humphreys (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Minister to the House and thank the families who have supported him through their campaign for this legislation. The fact that they shared publicly their stories and losses helped the Minister to get this Bill as far as it has come. I thank the Minister for his diligence, bravery and efforts to ensure the legislation got to this House on Second Stage. I thank his staff for their work on the legislation also. I welcome the Bill and I give the Minister an undertaking that my colleagues and I will do everything we can to ensure the Bill passes on Second Stage today, which it will, Committee Stage and, hopefully, Report and Final Stages before we rise for the summer vacation to allow the President to sign it into law. I believe firmly that it will save lives. It is a good day for the Minister to have brought the legislation this far and I look forward to it passing next week. If there is anything I can do to assist it going through the House as speedily as possible, I will do it.