Michael McDowell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will finish on this point. Members of this House have nothing to fear from the passage of the Bill, which is appended to this legislation. I recommended to the Taoiseach in my covering letter of the report that the Bill should be initiated in Dáil Éireann not here, because turkeys do not vote for an early Christmas, but Members of this House do not have anything to fear because the Bill itself acknowledged that on the best estimates they would, most likely, get one or two more terms of re-election under the present system before it fully came into effect. It has been cynically foot-tripped as a report. The efforts put in by those members of the all-party group have been traduced. This is a shameful moment for the Fine Gael Party.