Trevor Ó Clochartaigh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the support given by the Minister of State and the officials as we took the recess to discuss some of the issues. I also thank the Leader of the House for coming in and agreeing to put back Report Stage. That is useful.

At this stage, as a signatory to amendments Nos. 1 and 5, I would suggest that we have discussed them and what we need to do is go back and look at what the Minister of State has said. If we withdraw amendments Nos. 1 and 5 and we are happy, after consulting some of those advocating on behalf of the Magdalen women, we will not need to resubmit them for Report Stage. If we feel, however, after consulting those advocating on behalf of the Magdalen women, there are still issues that need to be addressed or that are not 100% clear, we could resubmit the amendments on Report Stage. I would suggest, if we can do so, that we would withdraw the amendments at this stage.