Trevor Ó Clochartaigh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have held my counsel until now. I have listened very closely to the debate. It appears to me that the debate is becoming a little bit shambolic because of the number of amendments to Committee Stage amendments, etc. I am concerned that we and the Government may make some grave mistakes in the Bill because we are amending parts of it that we cannot see in front of us.

I call on the Minister to suspend the debate on the Bill. Committee Stage amendments should be incorporated into a new Bill, which should be published properly so that we can then debate the Report Stage amendments properly and consider them in the context of the amendments the Government wants to make so that it does not make mistakes. Even at this late stage, amendments on Report Stage are still coming into our inboxes. It is an absolute shambles, to be quite honest. I am afraid that we will make a major mistake. Rushing the Bill in this manner is absolutely diabolical.