Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

These are residues from the troika programme. The legal services Bill is intended to introduce competition in legal services and use that to drive down costs. It was published and debated on Second Stage. As I understand it, Committee Stage is awaited because the previous Minister for Justice and Equality had indicated that he had significant amendments to propose. The new Minister is taking them up now.

On health services, the issue is identifiers for individuals in the health system in order that they can be tracked through it to follow the life cycle of a person in the health system.