Conor Lenihan (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)

I would like to do so but at the risk of causing offence, the Deputy may be overstating the case. It is not the case that a Supreme Court decision in respect of Leontjava and the Director of Public Prosecutions actually exposed a defect. What is happening here is that, on the advice of the Attorney General, we are moving to rectify a potential defect that might emerge at some point. It is not a question of the courts driving us into a paroxysm and deciding that we must change this.

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