Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I accept what the Senator is saying. To be perfectly clear again, what the Senators have before them is not the only process or option that we have tried over these last two and half years, with great haste I may add. I appreciate what the Senator said but it is not that there has been a delay within that period. We have been trying various other ways, going back and forth. What we have before us is what we managed, effectively, not only to get through, but what is better than what was there before. I appreciate that this may be disputed. I am not saying there is not possibly a better way but what I am saying to the Senator is that if she thinks that there is one, and Senator Bacik put forward a very interesting proposal we did not try-----