Charles Flanagan (Laois, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

To address any doubt in regard to the previous amendment, it creates a situation broadly similar to that in the United Kingdom. Amendment No. 8 deals with expenses and is a standard provision which Senator Colm Burke and the other proposers of the Bill will concede was not addressed in the original Bill. Senators will also agree that this is standard practice and a standard provision.