Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)

I will not repeat what I stated on Committee Stage. In effect, this would set up the Supreme Court for an appeal in a situation for which that court was not designed originally. As I stated on Committee Stage, the issue of trying to filter cases from going into the Supreme Court is absolutely necessary so that what goes to the Supreme Court is only an appeal on a point of law of major interest, and that is all it should be. In effect, the amendment would give the Supreme Court a new jurisdiction which would clog it up even more than it is already.

Question, "That the words proposed to be deleted stand", put and declared carried.