Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)

The legislation to control estate management companies. The next one is the social welfare lone parent and other low income families reform Bill, which is promised legislation. In the present environment, is it intended to withdraw that Bill to recalibrate it in some fashion, or is it intended to introduce it as a matter of urgency to encompass within it some of the Government's proposed changes announced in the budget?

The last one is the Bill to dissolve the National Council on Ageing and Older People and transfer the staff to the Department of Health and Children, and to subsume the National Cancer Screening Service Board and the National Cancer Registry of Ireland into the HSE. Is it intended to bring those bodies into the Department of Health and Children or to continue as was proposed? Is the Bill likely to be altered again as a result of recent developments?

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