Arbitration (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Seanad Éireann — 2026-05-28
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Alice-Mary Higgins (IND), National University of Ireland

It is an important point, but it will be done without scrutiny and even the requests that we wrongly agreed to. I did not agree to them personally. We voted against. I am referring to pre-legislative scrutiny, expert input and any of the areas of examination that are, and should be, properly applied to future agreements.
It is clear that the Minister of State and I disagree on this matter, and we will circle back to it, but, on this aspect, it is incorrect to suggest that it will only be the ICS that is attached. That is not the case. That is not what is on the paper in front of us that we are being asked to agree to.

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