Jim O'Keeffe (Cork South West, Fine Gael)

I support Deputy Costello in the general sense that we should examine the way we draft legislation with two objectives, first to make it more comprehensible if possible to the layman rather than just to legislators and lawyers and second we should look at how we can simplify the language. Much progress has been made on that front in the UK and that is a lead we could usefully follow here.

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