Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

——it is being done. I want the Taoiseach to give an assurance that it will be withdrawn from the Social Welfare Bill. It can be brought into this House, if he or the Minister for Social and Family Affairs wants to do so, and debated as separate legislation.

It is interesting that the amendments circulated by the Minister for Social and Family Affairs provide for the transfer of everything — staff, resources, money and property — except the functions of the agency.

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