When is it proposed to take the next Stage?
Safety, Health and Welfare of Workers in Industry Bill, 1976: First Stage.
Leave granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to make further and better provision for the safety, health and welfare of workers in industry, for that purpose to amend and extend the Factories Act, 1955, and to provide for other matters connected with the aforementioned matters.
—(Minister for Labour.)
Next session.
When will the Bill be circulated?
I hope the Bill will be circulated early in the next session.
The Minister is introducing a Bill now and does not expect to circulate it until next session?
It may be circulated before that.
More of the bluff.
I should like to tell Deputy Lynch who is worried about the number of Bills that come before the House that this one will be circulated early next session.
Is it not most unusual to be introducing a Bill at the end of one session and not circulating it until early in the next session?
I require a date for the Second Stage of the Bill. Is it agreed that the Second Stage will be taken on the first sitting day after the Christmas recess?
I should like the Minister to tell the House the name of the Bill he intends introducing tomorrow morning. Will the Minister tell the House also how many Bills from his Department are at present before the House and how many have been passed in the last 18 months?
Second Stage ordered for first sitting day after the Christmas recess.