Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages
Dail Éireann — 2024-07-10
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Thomas Pringle (IND), Donegal

On the Minister's response to my query about why now, are we to take it that it is pure coincidence? It was not clear what the Minister said. Is it that this was basically prepared and ready, sitting in the Department for years, and the Minister just decided to put it into the Bill now because this is a miscellaneous provisions Bill and she wanted to throw something into it? Alternatively, has it just been prepared now and happened to come in now? If the latter is the case and it takes four years to consider a judgment and put it in place, there is something seriously wrong with the workload of the Minister's Department.

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