Alex White (Labour)

The Minister seems to accept there is an issue in this regard as he said there is not too much between us but as Senator Bacik rightly said, the amendment was proposed in a constructive spirit. Despite what the Minister said it does not seem to sit particularly well to describe these orders as being "part of the offender's sentence". If the legislation was not being subjected to such a rush in these kinds of circumstances the Minister might have been prepared to accept this amendment but, unfortunately, we have confined ourselves to a situation where, as I indicated earlier, no amendments can be accepted no matter how meritorious they are because of the obvious implications in regard to them having to go back to the Dáil.