Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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I thank Deputy Sherlock. I welcome and fully accept his statement to the committee that there is no attempt to delay this legislation. I hope he accepts my statement that neither I nor the Department is looking to depart from the policy objective regarding NDAs as set out in section 8. Deputy Sherlock asked what the issue is. It is one primarily of time and resources to get a fully stamped draft covering three quite distinct areas ready within a tight period of time. In order to achieve the goal by the end of this term of office, whenever it is, that all three areas will have been legislated for, I made the decision, and I believe it was the correct decision, that we would have the Bill drafted with the first two parts and we would bring in the third element, which is the NDA element, through a Committee Stage amendment.