Rónán Mullen (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Okay. I would prefer to not be obstructing on it. I think everybody in the House agrees with this if you talk to them about it privately, and the public is looking on.

I want to pick up on something the Minister of State and Senator Dolan said in response to Senator Warfield's amendment. They invited him to continue the dialogue, as it were, with the Department of Education and said that consideration will be given to his thoughts and views. However, surely that is true of every citizen. At least I hope it is. What they are saying, therefore, has no relevance. It is to be hoped that in this country we are all still allowed write to the Government with our points of view but out job in this moment is to legislate and to consider legislation. It is no great response to say that the Senator might have a point but that he should keep talking to the Department of Education and we will see about bringing the matter up in the future. That is what I take what was said to mean. I do not mean to be personal about it, but we must insist on standards for our Legislature.

On my amendment, I apologise that I was not here in the first few minutes but it is the same substantive-----