Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for taking on board. It is appropriate in terms of amendment No. 62 that such agreements would go before the joint committee. I particularly welcome amendment No. 60, which strengthens our proposal in that we had looked to the strategy being laid before a specific committee. Under the Minister's proposal, it may be laid before such committees. Again, it may be the case that it involves the Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and Media, which has done extraordinary work in its pre-legislative scrutiny of this legislation, but it may well be the Joint Committee on Health or another committee that becomes relevant to some of the matters in the Bill. This is a really constructive development that builds on and strengthens our amendments.