Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)

I move amendment No. 4:

In page 10, line 6, after "enactments" to insert the following:

"provided that section 4(2) shall be fully brought into operation within 2 years from the date of passing of this Act".

The purpose of this amendment is to highlight the need to repeal the existing old legislation within a defined timeframe, given that it has been repealed once before by these Houses in the 1989 Act but it has never been brought into force. If the Minister of State rejects a 12 month timetable, why is it so unreasonable to have a two-year timeframe?

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