Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

An electoral Bill is due this session. I gave a comprehensive reply yesterday on the issues pertaining to the commencement of sections 48 and 49 of the Consumer Protection Act 2007. It was in response to Members of this House, and particularly Members in the Seanad who raised this issue that the Government and I responded generously to that proposition. Subsequently, following detailed legal advice, we have now been advised that it is not in conformity with the maximum harmonisation provisions of the UCPD directive. That is where the matter lies.

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