David Norris (Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Minister is making a very interesting point. If we do not get to it, would it not be more sensible to table the amendment now, rather than in some hypothetical future Report Stage debate? If the Minister is to be taken at his word, that he is amenable to addressing two specific concerns which have been raised and which he highlighted during the debate, I will outline them. Reference was made to the constraints on what an Attorney General might say or do and concerns about what the Government might be told, or know, or might not be told in certain circumstances or what it might not know, given the various interactions of key provisions of the legislation. That is the first point. The second relates to serving senior judges being required in any way to enter what will be a selection process and having this expressed in the Bill. It is incumbent on the Minister to give us sight of the amendments that are, according to him, supposed to address these concerns. The amendments must be drafted at this point, given the 74 or 75 hours of debate we have had. Thus, I wish to ask the Minister a series and wonder if he would be kind enough to answer them specifically point by point.