Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)

I will finish on this important point. The Minister is waiting for a Law Reform Commission report, which has been promised for a long time. He is planning on fobbing off essential and urgent legislation yet again for a Law Reform Commission report. We all are well aware that the Law Reform Commission has published many volumes of reports, none of which have ever been acted on. It is essential to point out as well that the Minister proposes to abolish the Law Reform Commission, and that needs to be put on the record. There is a little inconsistency in a Government paralysed and unable to act without a report from a body that it proposes to abolish in the first place.

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