Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I warmly welcome the Minister's commitment and acknowledge the interest his officials have shown in engaging in this area. The Minister will understand that I am seeking to be constructive with regard to the amendments. While I will not press most of the amendments to a vote, I may press one or two of them because this will put us on stronger ground in terms of collectively working together as we move forward. I will be pleased to work with the Minister and support on Report Stage any amendments he tables that perform more effectively the function of some of my amendments.Nonetheless, given that Report Stage will by necessity have a constrained opportunity for back and forth debate I may move one or two of the amendments today. I am not going to do this very often but there are just one or two points which I would like to make as they will give us a better starting point in terms of our work together on Report Stage.