Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

That is not my function. That is the committee's issue, not mine.

On the second matter, as Deputy Howlin will be well aware, the legislative process involves, first, under Cabinet handbook provisions, that a scheme must be prepared based on a policy consideration of the issues involved and when that scheme is prepared it is brought to Government for liberty to draft a Bill. When the Bill is then drafted——

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