Trevor Ó Clochartaigh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We do not have any particular issue with any of the amendments that have been put forward. A number of the amendments we tabled had been ruled out.

A long debate took place on Second and Committee Stages on the accreditation of journalists who would appear in a court. We have very good contributions from Senators Jillian van Turnhout and Ivana Bacik on the use of notes from people who had certain treatments, counselling etc. that they would be used very judiciously. The privacy of the relationship between the client and the practitioner in the counselling services would be sacrosanct. That those amendments have been ruled of order is very disappointing. I am disappointed the Minister of State did not bring forward his own amendments on those issues because they are still flaws in the Bill that should have been rectified at this stage.