Seymour Crawford (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)

I welcome the publication of the Nursing Home Support Scheme Bill and hope it will be brought before us as quickly as possible.

I wish to raise several other issues of relevance to the Minister in charge today. When will the adoption Bill come before the House? Given the lack of information from the HSE, will the Minister tell us when the health information Bill, now in section C of the Government legislative programme, will be introduced? I cannot understand why it is being delayed. Similarly, when will the nurses and midwives Bill be introduced?

The Minister's former leader gave us an absolute guarantee that legal costs would be controlled but the legal costs Bill remains far away. Is there any intention to bring it forward?

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