David Cullinane (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

There seem to be a lot of technical or Government amendments and this is another one of them. Why is that? This is Report Stage and it is not good practice that Oireachtas Members are given such short notice about amendments of this nature. I wonder why there are so many. This seems to be the case with many Bills brought forward by this Department. The matter was raised in a meeting of the Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation and the committee has agreed to write to the Minister on the subject. Can the Minister tell us why there are so many Government amendments? He must accept that it does not represent good practice. It might be understandable on Committee Stage but not on Report Stage.