Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)

In view of the importance which the Joint Committee on Enterprise and Small Business has attached to these matters and the fact that it has spent a great deal of time and public energy on them, will the Minister come before the joint committee with his comprehensive proposals to discuss them in advance of working out the mechanisms for a final decision? In other words, I ask him not to pre-empt the Government's decision but to discuss mechanisms, as far as the specific legislation is concerned, with the joint committee before reaching a final immutable position.

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