Feargal Quinn (Independent)

I am very pleased to hear the Minister of State say he is willing to accept amendments. He went even further and I was delighted to hear him say that some of these are very worthy amendments and worth accepting. The only trouble is if these are not accepted today, they do not become law. Something else will become law until later in the year. We will have six months of bad law.

If the Minister of State has indicated some of these amendments are very worthy of consideration and acceptance but does not accept them, he is introducing bad legislation which we must put up with for at least four or five months. I am sure the Minister of State's intention is not to do that.