Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)

I am asking whether it will be laid before the House or if the Tánaiste would even indicate at least if the terms of reference have yet been agreed.

On another matter, the Tánaiste has promised outside the House that legislation to allow certain categories of nurses to prescribe medicines would be taken before the end of this session. She was reported as saying the legislation would be enacted before the end of the year. When will this legislation be published? Have the heads of the Bill been agreed? When will Second Stage be taken?

Last week the House received Ireland's second report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child which was compiled by the National Children's Office within the Department of Health and Children. I had a parliamentary question directed to the Tánaiste which was specific to that report but the question has now been moved to the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform——

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