Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

One of the things I intended to say if I had been allowed to finish my speech this morning was that I intend to establish an all-party committee on this subject because issues such as this need to be teased out very carefully. People have spoken about a two-phase, as opposed to two-faced, approach to this legislation. I am happy to adopt the proposal that we should have a second look at this legislation on an all-party basis. The Government recently decided that I should deal with the problems which are not dealt with in this legislation in the context of an all-party committee. I could not give this information this morning because of time constraints but this is my intention.

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