David Norris (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I wish to make a point of order. I sympathise with the Minister's difficulty; this is a complex Bill. It has been rendered more complex by amendments, amendments on Report Stage, proposed amendments and all the rest.

There are 23 pages of amendments to one page of the Bill. That is astonishing. How can 23 pages of amendments be squeezed onto one page? The mind just boggles. It is daft. Surely it would be better to reconstitute the relevant page and leave the original version in the Bill as passed by the Dáil, and present a revised version to Seanad Éireann? That would seem to me to be the sensible thing to do. I cannot get over the fact that there are 23 pages of amendments to one page of the Bill.