John Gilroy (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I certainly understand the logic of this amendment, for which I have some sympathy. However, I am a bit concerned about the generality of the provision and about adding something so general into this legislation which might well apply to as many pieces of legislation we can think of. Perhaps there are other ways to achieve the objective of this amendment. The Minister might do this by ministerial order, directive or otherwise as opposed to inserting it in the Bill. I fear that if we insert it into this legislation, there is no reason a debate would not open up on why we could not insert it into other legislation.