Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Like the other speakers, I take on board the sentiment of what Senator Higgins has been saying. We have spoken about an arrow to a future direction and I have provided plenty of arrows in my contributions today and earlier in the week. I would like not to be fettered by the sort of time period mentioned because it is very tight. I would also like not to be fettered in respect of mother and baby homes because, as Senator Bacik has said, the issue of the need for information and tracing is essential for those in mother and baby homes, but it is also a wider issue, which everybody in the House knows. I have been very clear about my prioritisation of the legacy issues that my Department has to deal with. There are a range of them and the broad information and tracing legislation is absolutely key within that.