Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I will respond to Senator Sean D. Barrett because I do not wish to be at odds with him. We have plenty of time to deal with the amendments. The reason we should discuss them as a group is that they overlap. In any case, each individual amendment must be disposed of separately at the end of the discussion. It is proposed, however, that we discuss them together because they overlap and it would be difficult to disaggregate the Senator's amendments from those I have tabled because a number of them are identical. If we have a general discussion on the principles - we can have a meeting of minds in that regard - we could then deal with each individual amendment. That would be the best way to proceed and I recommend that we adopt such an approach.