Tá cúpla ceist agam faoi the health information and patient safety Bill, the public sector standards Bill and the planning Bill. I understand the public sector standards Bill and the planning Bill were brought before the Cabinet today. The public sector standards Bill deals with the replacement of the Standards in Public Office Commission. The objective of the planning Bill is to establish a so-called independent regulator, but, in this case, the regulator is to be answerable to the Minister. An Teachta Brian Stanley has published a planning and development (amendment) Bill today to provide for genuinely independent planning regulation. While I do not have any expectation that the Government will support the Bill, nonetheless, it highlights the serious flaws in the Government's Bill. Were the public sector standards Bill and the planning Bill considered this morning and, if so, when will they be published?

Last week I raised with the Taoiseach the Government's failure to publish a report on breaches of planning rules in six councils, a report which has been sitting on the desk of the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government since July. The review was set up almost three years ago after the former Minister, Mr. Phil Hogan, had scrapped planned inquiries into planning irregularities. When will the report be published? If it is published before the Christmas recess which seems unlikely, may we have a debate on it, if not before Christmas then at the first available opportunity after the Dáil resumes in January?

The purpose of the health information and patient safety Bill is to legislate for better governance in respect of health information and patient safety. I recently met the mothers of a number of young women who had received the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil. I understand that last night TV3 broadcast a distressing documentary on the health consequences for almost 140 young women who had received the vaccine. The mothers I met had had great difficulty in obtaining information, which is why I am raising the issue. The health information and patient safety Bill will make it easier for citizens to obtain all the knowledge they deserve to have. I understand the European Medical Agency has cleared the vaccine for use, but it is equally clear that a substantial number of young women and their parents attribute their illness to it.

When will the Bill be published? Allowing for the Ceann Comhairle's latitude, will the Taoiseach consider meeting the organisation, REGRET, which represents the young women concerned and their parents?

The heads of the health information and standards Bill were cleared last November. The Bill is being drafted and will be published in the new year.

The planning Bill mentioned by the Deputy was approved by the Cabinet this morning, with the appointment of a regulator and the publication of the six reports commissioned a few years ago. It was also noted that the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government could proceed to implement the recommendations made in so far as it was concerned and that other measures that would require Government approval would be brought back by the Minister in due course.

The final Bill mentioned by the Deputy was the public sector standards Bill 2015. This morning the Government approved the text of the Bill which is to be presented to the Dáil or the Seanad and circulated to Deputies and Senators. It also approved the explanatory memorandum. As the Deputy knows, the Bill has been designed to simplify, modernise and streamline the current legislative ethics framework which is in urgent need of reform. It seeks to respond to the extensive and detailed recommendations made by the Mahon tribunal and to meet the commitment made in the statement for Government to publish legislation to consolidate local and national ethics requirements and give effect to the recommendations made by tribunals. The Government cleared the Bill this morning for publication and the public sector standard will replace the SIPO. It will obviously be able to have many more authoritative opportunities to deal with ethics and matters surrounding them in the time ahead. The Deputy will be getting a copy of the Bill.

When will the report on breaches of planning rules that was approved this morning be published?

It is to be released immediately. There was no restriction on when it might be published. We gave approval for it to be published.

Is it a coincidence that it is only being published now after three years because of the RTE programme on the behaviour of some councillors?

It is being published today or it was authorised to be published today. We are also providing for a planner to be put in place to oversee all local government programmes and all rezonings. A planning regulator with appropriate authority will be put in place. That measure was also cleared this morning.