Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The difficulty is that this has been the centre of the whole debate throughout the process and further amendments relating to section 12 all concern this issue as to how such numbers are appointed, but if we do not know the numbers we are debating in the unknown. We have put a fundamental uncertainty into the Bill, which means any further discussion on amendments will just be clouded by that fact.

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