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Order of Business (29 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: When Fine Gael and Labour agree on this matter I will be back to discuss it.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: Let us see them.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: While it is most likely that the carbon legislation will precede the forestry legislation, both Bills are scheduled for introduction next year.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: It is intended to introduce the health Bill early in the next session and to give it priority.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: The heads of the Bill were approved by the Government in July 2006. While it is at drafting stage at present, I am not in a position to indicate exactly when it will be published. However, an on-line consultation process is under way in conjunction with the drafting of the Bill along the approved lines.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: I am informed that the legislation in question will be published early in the new year. Moreover, it will deal with the issue of the protection of victims and will deal with issues such as grooming of potential victims.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: Deputy Deenihan is correct. Legislation has been promised to give effect to the recommendations of the Dalton report and it is scheduled for publication in 2007.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: It is appropriate to have a Noise Bill before the House today. However, entertainment is provided without legislation in this House.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: Deputy Broughan must put down a question on the Indecon report to the relevant Minister. I am not in a position to reply to that. The electronic communications miscellaneous provisions Bill will be published this session. I remind the Deputy that Hanoi is not that far from Pyonyang where some of his colleagues used to visit regularly.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: I presume a committee of this House is master of its own affairs and that it can issue what it wishes.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: I am not here to state what the Oireachtas Commission can do with the report or whatever, or whether it must publish it bilingually.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: That is not my function. That is the committee's issue, not mine. On the second matter, as Deputy Howlin will be well aware, the legislative process involves, first, under Cabinet handbook provisions, that a scheme must be prepared based on a policy consideration of the issues involved and when that scheme is prepared it is brought to Government for liberty to draft a Bill. When the Bill is...

Order of Business (29 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: ——it comes to Government in its draft form and then a decision is made to publish it.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: The Deputy will appreciate that this is momentous stuff and that I have not heard anybody in this House state he or she has an instant answer to all of these issues. It is a matter on which we must proceed carefully, but I point out that this Government is the first in the history of the State to say it proposes to legislate in this area.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: I stated in the House that it was my intention to have the area of private airports reviewed. I did not promise in this House that I would publish something in the next week or two.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: If Deputy Burton asks the Minister for Finance about it, he will deal with it.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: If the Deputy had been listening earlier, I stated that the Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill would be introduced early next year.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: As the Deputy has been told on a number of occasions, that Bill has been withdrawn. It is not promised legislation.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: I do not think there is promised legislation of that kind.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: I do not believe there is a promise to legislate.