Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will give the House a quick update. We got the proposed wording from the 221+ group, with which the Department has been engaged extensively. We have sought legal advice. There are legal issues with the wording that was proposed. We are now having an ongoing conversation about wording that will be legally robust and essentially fits the intent. It is, therefore, ongoing. My hope is that we can find wording by tomorrow evening and I propose that we proceed with tomorrow evening. If agreement cannot be found, obviously we can think again. We want to try to do this, insofar as possible, by consensus. There have been ongoing efforts through the weekend and today to try to find wording that will work.

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