Jennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

It reflects the importance of the Bill in question that it is also the subject of my priority question. I would also like to ask the Minister for an update on the Bill. To take it a bit further, what are the actual delays with it? The Minister has said that considerable work has gone into it. When the committee first received the document, the Minister hoped for a two week pre-legislative scrutiny period which, to be honest, would have amounted to very little. Instead, we brought in a series of experts who all said the same thing on the weaknesses of the Bill. We put a lot of work into it. Will the Minister provide an update?

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