Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The revisionism that belongs to some parties around this House is quite funny and that is why some people think I am being sarcastic when I hark back to 2007. This measure was first mooted by the then Minister for Social and Family Affairs, Mr. Martin Cullen, in 2007. It was followed on by the then Minister for Social and Family Affairs, Ms Hanafin, in 2010. It was enacted by a Labour Party Minister in 2011. Those are all the people who now want to pause the button, stop the changes and go back to where we were in 2008 just because we have an election coming. It is not that simple.