Publication of promised legislation
Deputy Ó Cuív asks when legislation abolishing the Seanad, regulating lobbying and protecting consent in post-mortems will be published. The Taoiseach gives dates or progress updates where available.
An amendment was promised in regard to the abolition of Seanad Éireann. When is it expected to publish the Bill to do that? A Bill was promised in the programme for Government that is not on the A or B list, namely, the regulation of lobbying Bill. When will it be published? The third Bill I want to raise with the Taoiseach is the human tissue Bill, which has been promised for a long time and was one of the key recommendations of the Madden report. The idea is to protect by requiring permission to be sought for the consent given prior to any post mortem. It is not a complicated Bill and it was already debated in the Seanad, so what is the delay?
Comment on this
The Deputy has three questions. With regard to the Seanad, the Bill will be published in the next session. Work on the heads of the regulation of lobbying Bill is well advanced and that will come to Government in due course, although I cannot give the Deputy a date for it. I do not have a date for the human tissue Bill but I will update Deputy Ó Cuív as to the position of the preparatory work on the heads of that Bill.