Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)

In the context of the proposal that we reduce the period to seven or eight years, I note that Senator O'Donovan got this wrong on the Order of Business. He suggested that in dealing with practising barristers and solicitors I intended to change the criteria from ten years of practising to seven or eight years. Earlier today, he seemed to have gone off on a rant, criticising me for doing that. It now turns out that this was his proposal. He actually stood up this morning and delivered-----