Seanad debates
Thursday, 3 December 2009
Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2009: Second Stage
Alex White (Labour)
We are shuffling through the Bill while looking through the very helpful documentation from the Library and trying to decide whether we are doing the job as well as we should be doing it. Why can we not have a better use of technology by having the principal Act available on screen whereby we could note the sections of it this legislation amends and how it relates to other legislation? While I appreciate there are problems in terms of resources, it is not beyond the bounds of possibility that we could improve the way we do business in terms of amending legislation by having access to the materials that we need, particularly existing legislation, to enable us to navigate our way around the legislation more easily than we otherwise are able to do.
Those are some general remarks. I do not believe there is anything in the Bill to which one could take exception. I simply add those observations.
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