I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."
Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Order for Second Stage
Bill entitled an Act to provide for the establishment of a Department of State to be known, in the Irish language, as An Roinn Forbartha Tuaithe agus Pobail or, in the English language, as the Department of Rural and Community Development and to provide for related matters.
Is the sponsoring Minister going to come in to speak on the Bill? The protocol is that where a Department sponsors a Bill, the Minister of that Department comes in to explain the reason for bringing it before the House. Will that happen in this case? I do not see the relevant Minister here. This is a Bill from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
I am taking the Bill on behalf of the Minister.
Could the Minister explain why since he is not the sponsoring Minister?
I am taking the Bill on behalf of the Minister.
Question put and agreed to.