Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 29 March 2018
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised)
10:00 am
Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
It is very short. The quality of Bills has been mentioned. We have a Bill before this committee which the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, asked me at the time not to bring on Committee Stage until the summer of last year. I agreed because his Department was under pressure. The Bill was drafted by the Law Reform Commission. There is no issue in respect of the quality of the Bill. However, the Taoiseach's Government is holding that Bill up. This is simple but important legislation which the Government actually supports.
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