Thomas Pringle (Donegal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for his responses to the questions but he did not actually deal with anything I asked him with regard to the amendment. It is probably the only one that spoke to the amendment. We had a nice around-the-houses debate in general around fishing and stuff like that but that is not really the nature of what we should be discussing tonight.

Yes, I did support 30 days in the previous Bill and I would support 60 days in this Bill. I have no problem about that. I did not propose the removal of 30 days. I actually proposed replacing it with 60 days. There is a big difference in what the Minister actually outlined in his response. I would be very interested to hear the actual responses on what Deputy Sherlock asked about the EU and across the Border. It will be interesting to hear if the Minister would answer that question because that is relevant to what we are discussing tonight. What he has responded with so far only goes along with everybody else here in speaking total irrelevance with regard to the Bill.

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