Sean Barrett (Independent) | Oireachtas source

The note beneath amendment No. 3 on the list of amendment states: "For the information of Senators, the is a reference to section 85 inserted by amendment 100 at the Committee Stage". If one reads the Government's Committee Stage amendment No. 100, which refers to legal partnerships and professional codes, there is a note below it on the list of those amendments stating: "Acceptance of this amendment involves the deletion of section 85 of the Bill." We are working at such distances from the reality of what this legislation would look like when we eventually see it in full. Perhaps people with legal training can operate in the way in which we are being asked to do so this afternoon, but it is unfair to elected representatives to have to try to figure their way through this maze of amendments to amendments and deletions from the original Bill, as drafted, which was dated 2011 and which is the basic document from which we are working. This is a most unsatisfactory way to do business in the House.