James Lawless (Kildare North, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

This is short but complex legislation. There are quite a few amendments and many are intertwined. It is, therefore, possible, for example, that if one amendment succeeds, another that follows it may no longer be valid because the section it speaks to may be deleted. There are also amendments to the amendments. We have, therefore, quite a bit to get through and will do our best to get through it in two hours. If we do not, we have Thursday afternoon as a fall back. Perhaps, however, we will all work together to try to be as efficient and smooth as possible to give debate to all items as necessary and consider and do justice to them. It is a little complex so we will work together.

As the proposer of the Bill, Deputy Howlin might like to say a few words before we commence.