Michael McCarthy (Labour)

I support the amendment. In a previous contribution I stated that the All-Party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution, chaired by Deputy O'Donovan, deliberated on the issue of land prices for ten or 12 months and after consultation with many interested parties and Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas, came to a common sense conclusion. That model, based on all-party agreement should be used in the context of this amendment. It worked perfectly well for the issue of land prices and would have worked perfectly well for e-voting had the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Cullen, listened to the requests from Opposition politicians. There is nothing wrong with the spirit of the amendment or the amendment itself.