John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We now turn to the main business of the meeting, which is the No Consent, No Sale Bill. At last Thursday's meeting, a first draft of the report on the committee's detailed scrutiny of the Bill was circulated, with a request from members to submit written comments by noon yesterday, 8 July. On Friday, an amended version containing the views of the Free Legal Advice Centres, FLAC, the Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation, IMHO, and certain other changes was also circulated. A further draft, which attempts to incorporate the comments of members has now been circulated. We now have to deal with the matter. The Minister is present with us. We have substantial amendments to the Bill. For the information of members, we had invited in a representative of the Garda to deal with insurance fraud. The witnesses are waiting outside. I hope we will deal with the issue at 2 p.m. because our meeting must finish by 3.30 p.m. We may not be able to deal fully with this matter but we must make a start on it because of the amount of information we now have.