Brian Hayes (Dublin South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As I told the Senator earlier, the Government is introducing its own amendment No. 127, rather than accepting her amendments Nos. 43 and 115. The Department believes this will deal with the point she and her colleague, Deputy Pearse Doherty, have made both in this House and the Dáil in respect of the exception and makes provision for that in the Bill. The point highlighted in this House by the Senator both on Second Stage and today, as has her colleague in the Dáil, is well worth making. Notwithstanding the approval of the House, which I do not wish to second-guess, the improvement that will come about as a result of amendment No. 127 will greatly enhance the Bill in clearing up an area which the Senator and her colleague have raised. This is the reason the Minister will bring amendment No. 127 before the House later on.