Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I wish to speak about the legal services regulatory authority because I want to keep faith with a promise I made to members. The final tranche of amendments to that Bill, which would improve it and ensure some of the reforms we are implementing will come to fruition more speedily, is a very welcome development which I hope will have the support of members.

The amendments were agreed yesterday in Cabinet. I hope they will be circulated to members before the end of this week. We have provisionally fixed 12 February for dealing with them. That will give members a good deal more time than they had previously. If there is any particular reason the Bills Office cannot distribute the amendments by the end of this week, I will ask that the draft version be made available to members. It has been indicated to me that they should be formally distributed by the end of this week.