Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

With no disrespect, the Minister is missing my point. In my experience here, and the Minister has longer experience than me, often a good idea comes from the Opposition but, as the Minister has correctly pointed out, there might be a flaw in the wording.

Often what happened was that on Committee Stage Ministers said they accepted that Deputies had very good ideas but that they were not sure about the wording, that they would like to consider the issue in question very carefully and come back on Report Stage. As Minister, I once made the mistake of introducing something new on Report Stage. I should have done it on Committee Stage because it would have allowed for better use of parliamentary procedure. That is why we have Committee and Report Stages. That is all I am saying.