Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)

Procedurally, we cannot do that. The Bill started life in the Seanad and came back to us. It is with us now. If it goes back to the Seanad, if there were further amendments made in the Seanad, it could give rise to a difficulty in the Bill being completed by the end of this month. That is an issue that has arisen in the past. I hope the Bill will be supported in the Seanad. We very carefully teased it out in the context of this House and it is very much in the public interest that it be enacted. I hope that is not an issue that will arise. Certainly, procedurally, if the Seanad amended the Bill, we could not take it in a committee. It would have to come back in to the floor of the House.

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