Rónán Mullen (Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Minister will be generous enough to acknowledge a distinction. I do not play procedural games to draw debates out. I never do. What causes me regret is the fact that there is not enough seriousness in this place sometimes to have a full debate on important issues. The Minister then digressed into contradicting a point I never made. I did not make any claim about the content of the legislation. I lamented the lack of attention to children's welfare generally by way of evidence-based policies in all of these areas in which political correctness now dominates to the exclusion of what the evidence might tell us is in children's best interests, most particularly where children are actually killed with the support of the law.