Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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I move amendment No. 65:

In page 34, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following subsection:
"(5) All such regulations will be brought before the relevant committee of the House for discussion before being approved by the House.".

This amendment comes back to the question of the regulations and my belief that they should come before the relevant committees of the House for discussion. The argument the Minister made previously that he might have to introduce them in a hurry does not stand up when one reads the section, as the previous section states that they would only come into force after 21 days and would have to be approved by the House. As that means the House would have to be sitting after 21 days, they could not come into force in an emergency. Therefore, the reason given for not accepting the amendment does not stand up in this case.