Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Sport Ireland Bill is next year. There has been quite a deal of discussion about the production of legislation with the Parliamentary Counsel in regard to the priorities that are attached to pieces of legislation. Deputy Durkan is aware that, obviously, the Government was required to produce several pieces of legislation, some quite technical and complex, because of the troika arrangements, and a lot of that has been done. The Attorney General's office has provided some capacity within individual Departments to work on the preparation of legislation to speed things up here.

The priorities of Government for this session have been set out, including in the justice area. I might add that the Minister for Justice and Equality has put an extraordinary amount of effort into the preparation of some complex legislation, which has assisted that process. This comes through the Parliamentary Counsel for eventual consideration by Government. The discussions have taken place and priorities are laid out for this session.

I take Deputy Durkan's point into account. We are conscious of the bottleneck that arises either in Departments or at Parliamentary Counsel level before legislation is actually produced.

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