Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 30 November 2016
Select Committee on Justice and Equality
Business of Select Committee
10:15 am
Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
It is instructive that the Tánaiste did not concentrate on my main criticism, which is the failure of the Government to send the money message. The Tánaiste referred to pre-legislative scrutiny. I am happy to do that if we know at the end of the process that the Government is not going to pull the same stroke again. There is no point in a private Members' Bill going through pre-legislative scrutiny if, when it is about to go to select committee, it fails to get the money message from the Government. If the Tánaiste can give an assurance that this stroke will not be repeated in January or whenever, then I will go down that route of pre-legislative scrutiny. I ask for that assurance now.
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