Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

My own view is that it should be done when the legislation from the Department of Finance is enacted. The logic behind it is there will be the amalgamation of both offices, but that may not happen. That said, I am not opposing the changes. I am just arguing that it seems to be very clumsy and that there must have been a better way to do this. Perhaps it is the opportune time to do so, but I find the construct of the amendments clumsy. Amendment No.1 is simple enough and we have dealt with a number of similar amendments in the past. We dealt with several Social Welfare Bills to which pension provisions were added. I do not have a problem with this because I have been able to use it to my own benefit to table amendments on pension issues. Once a Social Welfare Bill is opened in that way it gives us such an opportunity. I may table amendments at a future date because I have not had adequate time to study the pension related amendments proposed. Given that the Bill has been opened up to cover pension issues, I may submit amendments on the structure of pensions and so forth.