David Norris (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I apologise but I have not finished. While the Minister can talk about bringing a regulation to the House, that still leaves in force the general power in the legislation to introduce further regulations. This is not acceptable. The Minister has reverted to his original point and is kind of shifting from point to point. He now states again that it is for the single instance. If that is the case, it should be included in the legislation and not by regulation and I appeal to the Minister in this regard. Why not bring it forward within the legislation? What is this great thing about regulation? Why not include it within the legislation as an amendment on Report Stage? The Minister should not put Members through the farce of voting. He certainly would be embarrassing his Labour Party colleagues by doing that. If the Minister must have this one exception, he should then put it into the legislation. He should not use regulation, which leads the legislation wide open for further elaboration and is quite offensive to democracy.