Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)

The Deputy will be aware that this is a productive Government producing a raft of new legislation. Much of it is prioritised because of commitments that are binding within the EU-IMF deal. In truth, some of the urgent legislation - some of which falls within my area of operation - is dislodging other legislation because the physical capacity of the Parliamentary Counsel to do all that must be done is strained. There will be two tranches of health legislation in this session, however: the health (provision of general practitioners services) Bill and the health insurance (miscellaneous provisions) Bill. Both of these will be progressed in this session.

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