Joe O'Toole (Independent)

I second the amendment.

I do not wish to challenge the ruling of the Acting Chairman but I do not believe amendment No. 21 is necessarily an alternative to amendment No. 20. If amendment No. 20 is put to the House and lost, there is no reason amendment No. 21 cannot be put to the House and either won or lost. Amendment No. 21 only becomes a substitute for amendment No. 20 if the vote, which one chooses to put, is "That the words proposed to be deleted stand." That is what I am querying, however. That does not need to be the vote. We are proposing amendment No. 20, which can be put forward in its own right. If it is defeated it then allows me to put forward amendment No. 21.