Charles Flanagan (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It can be circulated before the end of this meeting, if there are issues in it. I am satisfied that a number of changes were made to the Bill. However, there were issues included in the pre-legislative scrutiny report which were of great import and were the subject of substantive discussion at this committee, where agreement was reached. These were contained in the report but it did not appear to have the necessary level of influence that the committee might have liked in terms of the finished article. I am not sure what is in the Tánaiste's opening statement that might contradict that. The amendments that we have before us in the names of Deputies Carthy and Howlin deal with issues that were the subject of pre-legislative scrutiny and I assume they will attract a response of either agreement or otherwise by the Tánaiste in the context of this debate.