Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)

I am rather surprised by this. The Opposition had notice of this Bill for some time. Last June, we were requested to give the Joint Committee on Communications, Marine and Natural Resources an opportunity to discuss it before it was published. We deferred publication from the end of June or early July to the end of September as the House did not sit and the Bill could not be taken. The committee undertook to meet on 12 September to discuss the Bill.

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