Seanad debates
Wednesday, 17 November 2010
Prohibition of Depleted Uranium Weapons Bill 2009: Committee Stage
6:00 pm
Dan Boyle (Green Party)
I am quite happy to expand on the decision on the proposed amendments. The Bill is quite specific on a category of weapons known as depleted uranium. The deletion of the word "depleted" would mean the Bill would be about uranium weapons in general, which is a far wider scope and includes nuclear weapons which would require a far deeper definition. The Bill is meant to be narrow in its focus to achieve a certain goal and on those grounds the amendments have been ruled out of order.
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