Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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I have a final comment. I appreciate both Deputy Carroll MacNeill's helpful suggestion and the Minister's response. I believe that will happen. I will continue to refer to it as Coco's Law in any event.

I am sure many Ministers have been here and referred to the legislative tradition or legislative advice given by the Attorney General. We are the Legislature and we ultimately determine these issues. I recall having a discussion with somebody who said that would create a precedent. We are here sometimes to create precedents. Every Bill would not lend itself to something like this but I believe this does. We could create a precedent here without doing any harm or injustice to anybody. The learned judges and practitioners in the courts would be able to manage to understand the full import of the Bill, even if it has a shorthand Title.