Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Independent)

I have three issues with this. There is no impact analysis, which is a criticism of most parts of the Bill. We have very little time to debate the Bill, but what would make it possible to debate would be having poverty impact analysis, gender impact analysis and regulatory impact analysis, none of which is available. We do not have the resources of the Civil Service to crunch the numbers quickly for us. In fact in the Technical Group we do not have any central resource to crunch any numbers for us.

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