Dan Boyle (Cork South Central, Green Party)

While I am loath to add to the workload of the Minister for justice and lack of remorse, I would sign up to his vetting service in the knowledge that I should say the opposite of anything he might say.

I refer to the Bill sponsored by the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform on the Government's priority listing which has not been published and for which no indication has been given on when they will be debated in this House, namely, the civil law miscellaneous provisions Bill, the defamation Bill and the fines Bill. Is the Minister the cause of the manner in which the Government's legislative programme has become clogged up? He has a need to re-invent every Bill he brings before the House, depending on what he reads in the daily newspapers.

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