Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)

The Minister of State is not obliged to do any such thing. This is Parliament. If we want the legal advisers to create law, we will then simply meet annually to rubber-stamp the drafts put before us by the Parliamentary Counsel. If the import of my amendment is right, if it is consistent with normal practice in legislation to date, if it is not in any way deficient and if it achieves the purpose which the Minister of State intends, why is he resisting it?

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