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

We now have a problem here. How will the Seanad possibly interpret what the House was doing in the way it voted on amendments Nos. 8 and 10? I presume the Ceann Comhairle is suggesting that the Seanad will have to make some sort of decision in regard to those two amendments. It will then have to come back to the Dáil. Given the list of amendments which the Ceann Comhairle said have been ruled out of order, one would presume that the Bill will have to return to the Dáil after it has gone through the Seanad. I am perplexed as to how that could possibly work because the Bill will then undoubtedly have been amended by the Seanad. We would almost be going back to an entirely new Report Stage but with a different Bill from what we have here. It seems to me that there is a fundamental flaw in the Bill and rather than trying to squeeze it through the process, we should look to start the process again and do it properly. I presume the Seanad cannot consider the amendments which have been ruled out of order as they were not tabled by Members of the Seanad, so how will they be considered?

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