Thomas Gould (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I should have said at the start that this is not the way to bring forward these amendments. They are being tagged on at the end of a very comprehensive piece of legislation that we have just gone through and on which hours have been spent. We are looking at proper pre-legislative scrutiny. We believe that bringing amendments forward like this is bad legislating.

There may be things here we have not had the time to scrutinise properly at this committee. What we are doing now is at the last minute. Just before a recess, we are bringing forward these complex amendments to a number of different Acts. I am looking here now and we have engaged with people and looked at it ourselves. We want to ensure the legislation gets the proper scrutiny it deserves. Does the Minister of State recognise that bringing amendments forward in this way is not the way to do things? Some of these Bills are only months old. It is very new legislation we are very quickly bringing in changes to.