I formally second the proposal by Senator Warfield to take the Gender Recognition (Amendment) Bill 2017.

Yesterday, we discussed the Heritage Bill and it received detailed and comprehensive analysis. We spent nine hours debating it, which was a revelation. As I said yesterday, I could not get a single person to stand with me to object to certain clauses of the Bill in the last Parliament. Yesterday was a good day in this Parliament because a significant amendment was passed that restricts the cutting of hedges to the roadside. Even though this is a very important matter that affects a huge number of people in this country I could not find newspaper coverage whatsoever, nothing. The Seanad might well not have existed at all. We cannot compel the media to cover this House. We are entitled to ask why there is media coverage only when something trivial or entertaining happens in the Seanad. I am as guilty as anybody else in this aspect.

I am certain that it will be covered.

I beg the Senator's pardon. Will the matter feature in the Irish Farmers' Journal?

It will be, I am sure.

Senator Norris, please, without interruption.

It will be essential reading.

I thank the Senator for the information. I am very glad that the matter will feature in the Irish Farmers' Journal.

I am sure the Senator purchases it every week.

I read the newspaper occasionally in the Oireachtas Library. I am very glad to say that I have been mentioned in it more than once.

Protector of the countryside.

Somebody must have thought Senator Norris was a farmer.

Does the Senator read the lonely hearts section in the Irish Farmers' Journal?

I read them. They are hilarious.

Please allow Senator Norris to conclude.

I feel absolutely quenched by that shocking revelation by Senator Ó Ríordáin.

The advertisements mention road frontage.

The Senator writes to the agony column in the Irish Farmers' Journal. How appalling? The newspaper must be really badly stuck. I wonder if that comment will turn up in news rather than anything else we have said.

Senator Ó Ríordáin is in the Labour Party so he will know all about agony.

I hope my comment does not get coverage.

Please allow the Senator to conclude.

There is a moment for good humour, levity, etc., but it should not undermine the fact that this House does a lot of very hard and detailed work-----

Hear, hear.

-----that does impact on the Irish people. The least that we can expect is that this material is occasionally covered.

Hear, hear.