Paschal Mooney (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

In fairness, I did not go down the road of bringing in the vast body of legislation introduced by former Minister, Mary Harney, during her time in office, which brought in the infrastructure on which current practice within and outside the Department and medical practice is built. I did not want to do that because I thought I would be accused of political point scoring. I was introducing politics into this at all. I am just asking whether there is a particular reason why, having agreed with then Deputy Reilly this was a good Bill and should be introduced, the then Minister went on to talk about legal complexities. These were not elaborated on, there was further delay and the last word of the previous Government was that the heads had yet to come before the Government. That is the core of what I am asking. Is there some obstacle to the passing of this Bill?