James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am always happy to consider what has been said but I must advise Deputy Boyd Barrett that we consulted the Attorney General on this very point. She stated it was superfluous and unnecessary and would lead to complications within the Bill as one would then have to go down the route - which the Minister of State, Deputy White, has already mentioned - of defining what "immediate" and "inevitable" mean, etc., and then one is really into Pandora's box. My best legal advice is that such wording is not necessary and it is not wise to put it into the Bill. I hope Deputy Boyd Barrett will accept my bona fides on that. I am quite happy to go back and consider further, but I must advise Deputy Boyd Barrett that I doubt the advice will change.