Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour)

If the Minister is introducing, as he says, a technical amendment, he does so to protect himself because the other regulations will not be in place. Will he give us an idea as to when regulations under section 115 will be drawn up? Will the existing regulations under section 119 be continued for some indefinite period? The danger of amending the section is that there is no guarantee when or whether we will have those new regulations. In a sense, the Minister is potentially putting the establishment of new regulations on the long finger. He should clarify how he intends to implement section 115.

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