Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, Independent) | Oireachtas source

This is to ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she plans to progress the Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017, which the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection facilitated on 31 May 2018 at the request of the Department. The heads of the Bill were brought in on 9 May, including defined benefit, DB, protection to particular areas. It was published on 6 July. There have been numerous stops and starts and we are still waiting. It was an affront not to have that legislation before the committee on 31 May after all indications had been given that it would be there.

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