Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am sorry but I wish to make another brief comment. If the Minister is coming back with an additional amendment I will wait to see what it contains but I wish to tease out my point. To follow that to its logical conclusion then it is possible that there would be circumstances in which the court might decide it was not practicable to hear the voice of the child, despite the fact that the child was capable of forming a view and the court was capable of ascertaining it. I do not understand why that should be the case or why that qualification should exist. I would appreciate it were the Minister to give the matter some thought and, in the context of the amendment she is bringing forward, were she to reconsider the formulation and wording.