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- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)
David Norris: I ask the Minister if it would have been more sensible to delete the whole of page 41 of the Bill and introduce a new page 41 to save the trouble of dealing with this myriad of amendments.
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)
David Norris: The Minister has not answered my question about whether a new page 41 would be a good idea.
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)
David Norris: Senator Barrett has yet to speak on amendment No. 66.
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)
David Norris: So it is not in the version we have, I presume?
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)
David Norris: It is very confusing. On a point of order, I feel that some of these amendments would be better taken out of the general discussion and discussed separately in order to give us time to reread the Bill and inform ourselves. However, that will not happen.
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)
David Norris: Will the Minister respond to Senator Ó Clochartaigh?
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)
David Norris: I wish to make a point of order. I sympathise with the Minister's difficulty; this is a complex Bill. It has been rendered more complex by amendments, amendments on Report Stage, proposed amendments and all the rest. There are 23 pages of amendments to one page of the Bill. That is astonishing. How can 23 pages of amendments be squeezed onto one page? The mind just boggles. It is daft....
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)
David Norris: There are a lot of asterisks in 23 pages.
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)
David Norris: On a point of order, Members on both sides find the proceedings chaotic, disorientating and very difficult to follow given that we are presented with an unclean text. The Bill we have before us does not contain the Committee Stage amendments that have already been made. Would the Minister be prepared to suspend the debate and produce a copy of the Bill with the Committee Stage amendments...
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)
David Norris: We do not have a copy of the Bill as amended.
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)
David Norris: They should be included in the Bill.
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)
David Norris: I would like to request a little bit of information of a technical nature from the Minister. I accept completely the renumbering and all the rest of it. In the normal course of events we would just let this legislation slide through but we are not prepared to do that at the moment. I seek clarification for myself on the following. I noticed that hash marks were included in the amendment...
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)
David Norris: What does the reference mean?
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)
David Norris: Why is there one hash sign on some of them, two on another, three on another and four on another?
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)
David Norris: Yes. Could I elucidate a little bit more? Am I right in thinking that four hash marks means an amendment has been through four transitional stages?
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)
David Norris: It is not a bit helpful. It is not at all helpful.
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)
David Norris: Which "shall" is it?
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)
David Norris: No.
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)
David Norris: No. I just want to say-----
- Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)
David Norris: All right. We will leave it.