Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

The normal situation is that the social welfare Bill enacts those aspects of the budget that require legislative change in terms of social welfare announcements in the budget. The Deputy referred to other legislative proposals on the legislative programme which will take their own course. The social welfare Bill relates to the budget but Deputies have an opportunity to speak about social welfare policy generally on Second Stage.

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