Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)

We have some sympathy for this amendment but, on legal advice, the Attorney General's office has stated the safer option is to do this by primary legislation rather than by secondary legislation. He errs, and we also now err, on the side of caution following some of the court decisions about the over-use of secondary legislation by the Oireachtas. I ask the Deputy not to press the amendment for that reason: it is better for us to do this by primary legislation.