Martin Heydon (Kildare South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

To respond to Senator Gavan, that is no problem. The point I made when the Senator stepped out was that I had written out three specific sentences he wants me to put on the record of the House. However, I brought the debate back to the Senator's initial contribution, in which he said he was not asking anyone in this room to negotiate. The level of detail he is talking about, to my mind, constitutes negotiating. I will not get into that level of negotiating here tonight. I do not believe that is what primary legislation is about.

I will raise with the Minister, Deputy McConalogue, the points Senator Boyhan raised about his desire to see the draft legislation. This is not my side of the Department and it is not in my gift to talk about that here, but I will bring that point back to the Minister.