Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will not press the amendment. We will come back to it on Report Stage but it seems a bit peculiar in that no further damage would be done to the system by accepting the amendment. It would put the matter beyond any shadow of a doubt. Simply because the Attorney General takes one statutory interpretation and a senior counsel takes another view that a bit extra is needed, it seems very flaithulach to say the least to be going to court with taxpayers' money paying the costs.