Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I found Committee Stage to have been a very helpful exchange in which the committee identified a number of issues. I promised that we would begin to really investigate and interrogate them and subsequent to that time, we have been consulting with the Office of the Attorney General on the issues. We have also received a submission from the Ombudsman for Children, which raised some similar issues along with additional issues. I have exchanged directly with the Ombudsman on those and we will look at all of that together and bring it to the Attorney General. I hope to bring the Bill back early in the new year as a result of this. We continue to work on the Bill in the background. It is not as though it is not happening.