Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 November 2014

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection

Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage

1:05 pm

Photo of Willie O'DeaWillie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail)
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I will not press the amendment. We will come back to it on Report Stage but it seems a bit peculiar in that no further damage would be done to the system by accepting the amendment. It would put the matter beyond any shadow of a doubt. Simply because the Attorney General takes one statutory interpretation and a senior counsel takes another view that a bit extra is needed, it seems very flaithulach to say the least to be going to court with taxpayers' money paying the costs.