David Norris (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I assume in my innocence that the Minister of State will accept this amendment. I base this on the fact that after a certain amount of obfuscation and prevarication he eventually came around, in response to our arguments about the superiority of judgments of the court and the impropriety that tended to overrule them by regulations, to say that this was a matter of qualitative rather than quantitative measures. That would lead one to conclude that he accepted that quantitative measures were wrong, imprudent and definitely illegal. I do not think he should have too much difficulty in absorbing this specific amendment. I look forward to his enthusiastic acclamation of Senator Barrett's amendment.