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Sir Jonathan noted that the cumulative effect of amendments can negatively impact the clarity and accessibility of law and suggested an answer to this challenge:
One solution which I and others have suggested-it is not a new idea-is that, when you are amending an instrument, you should at the same time produce a consolidated amended version ...
It will undoubtedly be before Christmas. At the latest, it will be early December, but we are in contact with the office of the Minister for Parliamentary Business in order to secure the appropriate time.
We need to go out and talk to people about the subject, rather than have people come to talk to us all the time. Those visits will have to be arranged in advance and are therefore a high priority.
If you walk into any newsagent or supermarket and look at the wrapping paper for gifts for new babies, or the cards for new babies, you will find that very few do not have an image of a baby's bottle.
The Opposition has claimed that this episode has wider ramifications and that the failure to renew the order is the latest example of financial and administrative mismanagement by the Executive.