Peter Power (Limerick East, Fianna Fail)

We will certainly deal with those amendments and will be able to deal with them in greater detail. We welcome amendments on Committee Stage.

I take this opportunity to reject the idea that the Convention on Cluster Munitions contains loopholes, as some would seem to suggest. The definition of a cluster munition agreed in the negotiations is a comprehensive one that meets the objective set by the Oslo process of banning all cluster munitions that cause unacceptable harm to civilians. A number of systems that do not meet the criterion of causing unacceptable harm to civilians were excluded from the definition of "cluster munitions".