Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)

I move amendment No. 1:

In page 9, line 22, after "AS" to insert the following:

"AN tÚDARÁS SLÁINTE AGUS SÁBHÁILTEACHTA, OR, IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE,".

I would have liked to have sight of it because it is hard to examine groupings if they are handed to one when one is on one's feet. As on Committee Stage the Minister of State might bear with us in respect of groupings which it may not necessarily be useful to take together.

I begin with what is an easy amendment for the Minister of State to accept, being the successor of de Valera in the constituency of Clare. I propose that the Irish version be inserted "AN tÚDARÁS SLÁINTE AGUS SÁBHÁILTEACHTA, OR, IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE", which is right and proper.

I sincerely thank the Minister of State for the way in which he has approached the Bill. It was most helpful to have reasoned responses to many of the Committee Stage amendments sent to the Opposition. It is not something that one normally gets from a Minister because in a sense it is showing his hand in advance. It is only a Minister who is particularly competent and confident who can do that.

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