Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)

We are speaking about two issues. The Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform is the lead Department on one. This will be the new legislation to be introduced and the Law Reform Commission will make its views available to the Government. A Cabinet sub-committee is meeting next week and discussions will take place with the Opposition. That is under the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform.

There is a different scenario regarding the companies consolidation Bill on which I spoke to the Deputy's party spokesperson. The Minister of State, Deputy McGuinness, and I will work through that. Given that it is an extensive Bill, pro forma we should go through the discussions on that in a different way. Separate from all that and feeding into the companies legislation, work is being carried out by the National Consumer Agency on my behalf specifically regarding issues outside the legal remit which will be introduced to the House under separate legislation under the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform.

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