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Cooke report and Legal Services Bill

Summary

Deputy Mac Lochlainn seeks publication of the Cooke report on alleged GSOC office bugging and progress on the delayed Legal Services Regulation Bill. Deputy Quinn says the report is imminent and the Bill’s Report Stage amendments are being prepared.

While I know it was raised earlier, I would like to get some sense of when the Cooke report into the allegations that the GSOC offices were bugged will be published and when the debate will take place. That was supposed to have been presented to the Government and to these Houses before Easter.

Second, on the Legal Services Regulation Bill, it is outrageous that we are over three years through that process and we still have not come to Report Stage and Final Stage. When will that be back on Report Stage?

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With regard to the Cooke report, although the Deputy may not have been in the House, as I said earlier, the note I have is that it will be published imminently. The request to former Mr. Justice Cooke to do this work was made on 19 February, so he has it less than three months.

In regard to the Legal Services Regulation Bill, this is complex legislation, as the Deputy knows better than I as he was involved in it. The amendments required for Report Stage are being drafted and the intention is to have it as quickly as possible.

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