Tom Kitt (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)

This kind of effort to connect one piece of legislation with another would work in primary legislation. However, in terms of secondary legislation, the advice is that it is best to deal with issues on a case by case basis rather than provide generally for them in the Interpretation Bill. It is a matter of using language in our statute law which may be re-used. That is the background to this Interpretation Bill. That is why we propose to delete lines 22 to 30.

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