Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 28 November 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
National Famine Commemoration Day Bill 2017: Discussion
1:30 pm
Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
It will be our decision. We are the members of the committee. We will also need a money message from the Government but I cannot foresee any major problems as regards money because it is expenditure. A lot of Private Members' Bills are stuck at various stages and this could be one such Bill.
I have just been informed that we have a money message on this so we can progress all the way to full legislation, with the agreement of the House. The officials and Deputy Brophy are here to explain the Bill and to suggest the areas that we need to address. It is also necessary to determine that the Bill is not fatally flawed and will not cause undue harm to something else, in which respect we seem to be okay.
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