Liam Twomey (Wexford, Fine Gael)

I am letting these amendments go through because, to be honest, I do not fully understand what the Minister is doing here. It is fascinating that the Minister is bringing forward amendments on the basis of the advice of the Parliamentary Counsel and that he is deleting sections of the Child Care Act. He is changing legislation. We have made the comment in the last two weeks that most people outside this Chamber have little or no interest in what we are doing with health legislation. Even now, only I, the Minister and officials are present in the Chamber, so it is unlikely there will be great discussion of what is happening with this.

It is amazing that we are changing such major legislation in the last few minutes of the Bill's passage. We have rushed a great deal of good legislation in the last two weeks. We should have been more sensible and given it more time. I regret that we rushed this so much. However, I will not oppose any of these amendments.

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