Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The reason I raised it this morning is because we need to do it at committee level. The schedule is to go through this until 9 o'clock tonight. I think it would be unfair to ask the clerk to sit back and for us to go into his office one by one to discuss this. We are back early tomorrow morning. We should set out half an hour and ask the clerk to come in to explain some of the rulings so that we have a better understanding of them. I have also questioned whether we can get legal advice. I do not want to call into question the ruling or interpretation of the clerk. I have signalled amendment No. 105, which deals with the capital gains tax for the funds industry, and I want to be able to press the amendment if it comes to that point. As parliamentarians, we have to have a clear, legal view on whether that amendment is disallowed or not. That is why we need to have that discussion.