Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)

I welcome the Minister's commitment to answering the key points I have included in the amendment through parliamentary questions or committee discussions, if the committee so wishes. Maybe in future we should insert such a commitment in writing in legislation such as this to provide a guarantee that changes will be reviewed, even if only on a once-off basis rather than continuously - not every Act needs to be reviewed every year. I welcome this. If we had had a longer time to prepare for Committee Stage we could have come up with a wording that would have been acceptable to the Minister for inclusion in the Bill. As I am conscious of the time and the big issues that need to be discussed in the next few sections, I will withdraw the amendment.

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