The Seanad has passed all stages of the controversial bill to break up Aer Rianta, despite the continued opposition of Fianna Fáil Senator Mary O'Rourke.
In the Seanad, she earlier supported a Fine Gael claim that there was a factual error in the bill and that it should be amended.
Senator O'Rourke said that yesterday she had said the bill was deficient and faulty - and she again insisted it was.
Then she revealed that it had not been drafted by the parliamentary drafting team, but by Matheson Ormsby Prentice, a private legal firm. Senator O’Rourke said while ministers could employ outside firms, it had rarely been done.
Transport Minister Séamus Brennan insisted that the section had been deliberately drafted in that manner by the Government and its legal advisers and that it was not deficient.
However, the debate ended on a peaceful note with the minister expressing his admiration for Senator O'Rourke.
