Health Bill
10:30 am
Stephen O'Brien (Shadow Minister, Health; Eddisbury, Conservative)
Thank you, Mr. O’Hara—with three apostrophes in the Room, we are going to have some fun. I join the welcome given to you and your co-Chairman by the Minister. We look forward to being guided and supervised under your experience and tutelage. I am sure that we will all endeavour to ensure that the Bill is given proper scrutiny.
As a matter of principle, the official Opposition have concerns about the programming of Bills and programme motions. Indeed, from time to time we have raised formal objections about the number of Bills that are not given adequate time to be scrutinised properly. None the less, on this occasion the eight scheduled sittings should be enough to give proper scrutiny to the Bill. We will do our best to ensure that we meet that timetable.