John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That concludes that part.

Part 4 of the Bill is mainly technical in nature and contains amendments to the Civil Registration Act. Does any one have any issues they would like to raise? No. Part 1 contains the standard material around Titles, definitions and so forth, so that concludes our scrutiny.

Before we conclude I would like to thank the departmental officials for attending today. As I said at the outset, it is not the intention of the committee to delay the passage of this legislation in any way. We agreed in private session this morning that we would conclude the pre-legislative scrutiny here but we have identified that we would like to explore the pension issue further. Members may well introduce amendments on Committee Stage. In that regard, the pension equality group and IBEC, which has some concerns around the Pensions Authority, will be appearing before us in the coming weeks. That should not affect the passage of the Bill from the Department's point of view but it may result in members proposing Committee Stage amendments. It is important to flag that to the Department at this stage.