Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 24 September 2024

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth

General Scheme of the Maternity Protection (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2024: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth

3:30 pm

Photo of Tom ClonanTom Clonan (Independent)
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Okay, but this is a semiotic issue now because I asked the Minister whether he got any advice from the Office of the Attorney General and he said that de facto, in practice, the legal advisers in Departments are seconded from and really speak for the Office of the Attorney General. That being the case, I take it the Minister got advice from the Office of the Attorney General. It is either a "Yes" or "No" answer. He did or he did not, and if he did-----