Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 January 2024
Select Committee on Social Protection
Social Welfare and Civil Law (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Committee Stage
Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I know. My only concern here is what happens if the Bill is passed and three months later the Minister is finding it hard to get the regulation out of the Department. To have an outer limit, in other words to say whatever day the Minister decides up to say, three or six months or whatever, will concentrate the mind on getting the regulations on her desk. That is what I am considering. The Minister wants to do it immediately but she knows that when it gets into the system, sometimes a deadline is a really helpful way of concentrating the mind to get the final regulation on the desk and not have it go around in circles. It is the same with Part 3. When will that come in? Again, the Bill leaves it open to the Minister.
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