Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I think it is a great improvement but the Deputies are going to have to accept a certain amount of goodwill here, which is absolute. I am proposing that my amendment goes through because it goes 90% of the way to what the Deputies want. I think it goes 100% of the way but they obviously do not feel so. If my amendment goes through, because it is a great improvement, I propose that we devise an amendment in a spirit of co-operation and goodwill that gives the Deputies the reassurance they want in the Seanad. The political reality is that it should be easily achieved.

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