Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 February 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Miscellaneous Provisions (Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union on 29 March 2019) Bill 2019: Discussion

Photo of Shane RossShane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Yes. Deputy Troy asked if this was the only Bill that would be brought forward. The Bills we have here are part of an omnibus Bill and I am certainly not ruling out the possibility of amendments being tabled.

We are talking to the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel on an ongoing basis. Nothing is yet written in stone but I brought a general scheme to the Cabinet on this basis. It is certainly subject to amendment if we discover there are more sensible ways of doing this. The bones before the committee are the bones of what the deal will be. We may change it in various places between now and March, when we hope to introduce the Bill. Fundamentally, the principles are there-----

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