Margaret Cox (Fianna Fail)

I certainly am not. It is an all-invasive Department in terms of the lives of everybody in the country. A consolidation Bill such as the one before the House makes life much easier for all involved, whether as an employer to ensure one is providing the correct rights and entitlements under maternity protection, adoption leave, carer's benefit and so on or in any other capacity. It is a fine piece of work. We look forward with great interest to the layman's guide to the legislation because those of us who are laymen, and that is where I count myself, often find it difficult to read through the legislation and understand everything.

It is important in the future that the Minister considers the necessity of translating the legislation into other languages. We will find more and more that many of those coming into the social welfare offices throughout the country are EU nationals for whom English is not their mother tongue. There is a huge number of Polish people in Galway and Leitrim and there may be many Africans. Perhaps this is an area in which we can set the standard in regard to how we frame our information. I thank the Minister for his contribution and that of his officials to this legislation.