Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am not a lawyer. The advice I have received previously is that Oireachtas debate does have some legal standing and that, when the courts are seeking to interpret things, people can refer back to the Oireachtas debate.

I am not a lawyer, so I would prefer not to make a definitive statement on this.

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