Thomas Byrne (Fianna Fail)

I hope the Minister can because it is not appropriate for private sector individuals to be given statutory power when they are simply appointed by statutory bodies. That appears to be the case in this legislation.

We will not accept a guillotine on Committee Stage because we are not going to debate the Bill for the sake of it. We intend to study it line by line, as the Constitution requires us to do. It is too important for the guillotine. The way to calm the fears it has generated is to inform people about what it does. That can only be achieved through a full and proper debate in the Parliament of the people.