Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is fine. From January 2018 up to now, sales of practices have been continuing. There is a consultation process in place but the handbrake has never been applied. As far as I can see, anyone who wants to sell his or her practice will have it done before this consultation process is complete. To come back in here and tell us the result of the consultation process is grand but if it reaches a conclusion which differs from the decision taken in December 2017, the horse will have bolted. I cannot understand why, when the council started a consultation process, a clause was not put in that while the consultation process is going on sales of practices can only take place as heretofore.