Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have not finished. I have the floor. The volume of notes that is going to be produced is very high.

We are not necessarily going to get to return to those issues on Report Stage, depending on how much time the Business Committee and the Government decide to give us. We are finding ourselves in a genuinely difficult position and I am appealing for the Minister to understand our challenge, which is that the function of Committee Stage is not only for amendments to be tabled by the Government and the Opposition but is also to tease out, understand and clarify, for our benefit and that of the public, the rationale for the sections of the Bill, particularly where changes are happening. I want to put on the record that we are being told the explanation we are asking for cannot be provided but will be provided-----