Sean Barrett (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for her explanation about the shortage of time, drafting and so on. We accept and are grateful for that. We thought the Bill would come back in a different form because of our previous discussions. Her explanation is genuinely accepted.

Section 1 states,"“education provider” means a person in the State who provides a programme of education and training", which seems to open up the kind of loopholes to which Senator Craughwell referred. Perhaps Report Stage of the Bill should have been delayed in order to incorporate the amendments we suggested during the previous debate. The loopholes remain.

I wish to press the amendment. The RCSI is further down the route. The Minister wants to do other things. We have not, due to the drafting problems, incorporated protections against the loopholes to which other Senators referred.