With the help of my colleagues who didn't miss a word, I'll try and summarise as best Ican some often complex exchanges - but the upshot is that one of the key aspects of the Bill which has dogged it from the very first may now have to be rewritten before it's brought back to the Assembly for a vote.
"I often think of myself as the last person who is a monarchist really, simply because I simply can't imagine if we had anything in its place it would be anything but worse, " he said.