Patrick Costello (Dublin South Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

For the record, and for anyone watching at home, I apologise in regard to the complexity of what we are dealing with here. We are going to try to be more clear. There are limits to how much we can do that because of some of the procedural rules we need to follow. There is a list of amendments - quite a long list; longer than Bills would normally get - and on that full list the amendments that are similar have been grouped together. The unfortunate thing is, as we discuss them, we are only discussing them by number and not the details of them, which I appreciate can make things confusing without that full amendment list being available. However, what we then do is discuss each amendment as it is grouped. We will discuss all the amendments in that group but only vote on amendments in numerical order. Therefore, there will be amendments we are discussing now that we will not actually vote on until later in the session or in another session. At that time we will only take a vote on them because the discussion will have happened now, when the first of that grouping comes together.

I appreciate this is complex, and given the nature of the 360 amendments, it adds to that complexity. I appreciate that, for many people who might be watching outside of the committee rooms, if they do not have that list of Committee Stage amendments it will be almost impenetrable. Therefore, apologies for that. We will move on.

What we have done is, we have moved amendment No. 2. We have discussed the grouping, which is amendments Nos. 2 to 5, inclusive, 70 to 76, inclusive, 81 to 83, inclusive, 104, 105, 138, 139, 352 and 359, all of which are in similar areas or related. For any of the Deputies who tabled some of those amendments to which we have already spoken, are there amendments in that list that I have called out, either from the Deputies or from the Minister, to which we have not yet spoken? If there are no further discussions, we can move to a vote.