Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

What is the Taoiseach's view of the subcontracting out of legislation to be drafted, whether that of his Department or other Departments, on the instructions of the Department as distinct from the Attorney General? Since the Taoiseach's answer to me, which I took to mean that legislation was not being subcontracted out, Deputy Burton told me that the Central Bank Bill was contracted out at a cost of €1.5 million. Subsequently, before it went through Committee Stage, the Bill had to go back to the Office of the Attorney General to be redrafted. Does that matter require consideration?

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