Michael D Higgins (Galway West, Labour)

I move amendment No. 1:

In page 3, to delete lines 20 to 23.

This amendment simply deals with the coming into operation of the Bill. I do not propose to delay very long on some of these amendments but I will concentrate on substantive ones of definition. It is interesting that on Committee Stage the defence of the text as it remains is that it is a convention relating to drafting. I have a more conservative view, which is that the decision of the Houses of the Oireachtas should be responsible for the final definition of the text.

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