Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

As I said, I support the idea it would be done by the Minister. That is a good thing. However, there seem to be some mechanisms of that which still have to be worked out, including how it is going to happen and when. We all know the power we have to compel a Minister. It is small when one is in opposition, and the Minister of State knows this. We can reserve the right be in a bad mood about it but if we do not have the numbers there is nothing we can do about it, so the Minister of State should not be pretending we are getting something we are not getting. Having said that, he might elaborate on how he sees this working. Perhaps there might be some element of that as part of the Seanad debate that could be recorded as well to give people comfort that at the very least, there will be a halfway house between the rigorous review proposed by Deputy Shanahan and the one proposed by the Minister of State. I do not suggest the Minister of State's proposal is not rigorous but perhaps there could be some kind of halfway house that could be discussed between now and the Bill making its way to the Seanad. I think we are all agreed this should go through. People are waiting on it, we want to see it, it is progressive etc. Perhaps there is an opportunity there.

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