I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."
Civil Defence Bill, 2002: Order for Second Stage.
Bill entitled an Act to promote and support the development of Civil Defence planning and management and to facilitate the implementation of Civil Defence measures; to promote, develop and maintain Civil Defence as an effective service in support of the emergency services; to provide for the recruitment and registration of Civil Defence members, and for those purposes to establish a body to be known as the Civil Defence Board or, in the Irish language, an Bord Cosanta Sibhialta; to transfer functions from the Minister for Defence to that body; to amend the Air-Raid Precautions Act, 1939, and to provide for related matters.
Question put and agreed to.