Would anybody mind telling me—I am a simple creature— what is the purpose of this, withdrawing one Bill and introducing another?
Wool Marketing Bill, 1968: First Stage.
Leave granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the improvement of the marketing of wool and for that purpose to make provision enabling the purchase and sale of wool to be regulated and providing for the registration of buyers of wool and the licensing of exporters of wool; to establish a body to be known as An Chomhairle Olla and to define its functions; to make provision for the imposition of levies in relation to the purchase, sale or export of wool; and to provide for certain matters connected with the matters aforesaid.
—(Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries).
This arose as a result of a re-appraisal of the full text as now proposed to be circulated and as a result of that re-appraisal, the Long and Short Titles of the Bill were seen not to encompass certain words used in the first form, which has now been withdrawn, but are used in the proposed Bill. It is just inserting two words. It is considered necessary from a purely technical point of view that there should be a new Bill rather than a continuance of the old Bill.
The text of the new Bill is being brought within the ambit of the original Long Title, is that not it?
Yes, but there are a couple of words in the 1967 formula which do not appear in the 1968 formula, but it does not make any real change in the potential or the power of the proposed legislation.
Second Stage ordered for Tuesday, 2nd April, 1968.