David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will indeed. I was making a very quick point and I will move on.

On the amendments, I commend the Minister of State on the approach she took on Committee Stage. It was very constructive and while some of these amendments are technical in nature, many of the amendments we are dealing with are ones that we discussed ourselves and they arose out of conversations and concerns some Members had. I appreciate that this is complicated, as the Minister of State said. We are dealing with second partners and issues around family successors are complicated when trying to work out how things will work in practice. The Minister of State spoke about the provisions in the amendments that will allow the Minister to make regulations in the future. It is important that she gives us more detail on what type of regulations can be brought in by the Minister in that regard. I have a number of other questions but as we have very little time I will leave it at that. These amendments are being tabled in good faith and came out of very good discussions that we had on Committee Stage. However, when we are being asked to support amendments that will give powers to the Minister to make regulations, it is important that we are given a better and clearer sense of what those regulations might be.

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