Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I think it would make a mark. I am not going back over the history, but I know the Minister said there was a concern about drafting amendments based on the latest media story. My amendments have been there for about two months. They were tabled immediately after Second Stage, long before the recent episodes. They have been there for so long that I had to double-check whether I had even sent them in. My amendments are not based on last week's events.

I accept what the Minister is saying. My statement was simple. I did not talk about the investigation to be carried out by GSOC and I will refine my amendment to take that into account and make the Minister's wording more definitive. I am sure the Minister will have a similar type of amendment when we get to Report Stage. If that is the case and they will have the same immediate effect-----