Michael Colreavy (Sligo-North Leitrim, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am surprised that amendment No. 2 has been ruled out of order and that a number of other amendments were also ruled out of order. I looked at the report that was produced by the committee and the amendments that we have put forward. The amendments, in many cases, were arising directly, or almost directly, from the report produced by this committee. Therefore, either the committee report was out of order in many of its aspects or this decision was very strange. I do not see the rationale underlying the removal of some of the amendments under section 1.