Pat Casey (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the special guests. It is hard to follow Senator Kyne’s contribution. We are all entitled to our own views on this and mine is significantly different from his. That is what politics and debating is about and I respect that.

I acknowledge the role my colleagues, Senators Ardagh and Fitzpatrick, had in bringing forward this motion. I want to go back to the role of women in Ireland. I do not think we are trying to rewrite history by calling the hospital after Dr. Lynn. We are acknowledging the role women played in the modern Irish Republic and how they helped evolve it.