Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour) | Oireachtas source

If I read the Bill correctly, the first bills will go out in January 2019. We may well have had a general election by then. That will be up to confidence and supply, etc. Then there will be six months for the Government to straighten out its affairs, which, I presume, will bring us beyond the local elections as well. I think there might be a political agenda in the timetable here that is again related to kicking the can down the road.

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