Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)

What the Deputy's party is putting forward would not solve anything by next June. The priority should be to concentrate on what can be achieved in the short term. After that we can discuss longer-term issues. If politicians are experts at anything, they are experts on the electoral system. We might have more in common with each other here than we have differences. We should deal with the issue on a cross-party basis and not get into the same spat we had on the other issue.