Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

If I were to be consistent, I would have to allow the Minister of State the time to go back to the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel because that is what I have done on other occasions. In some cases, a Minister or Minister of State has come back quite favourably disposed. In other cases, though, they have not done so on Report Stage. In the Seanad, then, the Bill would be changed again. In some ways, the Minister of State is giving a commitment and I have to take him at his word. It is an easy ask in some ways. The Minister of State might not agree with some of the amendments, but some of them he must agree with, legally speaking. It is not a choice.