It is proposed to take business in the following order: Nos. 1, 10 (resumed), 11 (resumed), 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 8, 6 and 7. It is proposed that the order made in relation to extra sittings be discharged and that normal sitting hours be resumed forthwith.
Order of Business.
(Cavan-Monaghan): That appears to be a more satisfactory arrangement because we were given a package——
The Deputy should not make a speech.
(Cavan-Monaghan): I am not making a speech. We were given a package of legislation for processing in two days and we could not have been expected to do it in three weeks.
The Government do not know their minds from one day to the next.
Those snide early morning remarks get the headlines. The Government do know their mind but the main Opposition party did not know their mind because the Whip did not know from whom to take orders.
The Taoiseach has been misinformed. I knew where I stood from the beginning.
(Interruptions.)
When we were presented with the legislation I said that it would take three weeks to get through it because we would not be rushed into accepting it.
Order. Will the Deputy resume his seat?
Did the Deputy not tell me that he has three or four bosses.
(Interruptions.)
I did not. The Minister is the person who said that it must be hard to deal with three or four bosses.
I think I can call a witness on that point.
The judges in the court did not agree with what some Ministers said.
(Interruptions.)
Order.
It is unworthy of the Taoiseach to make a statement which is untrue and which he must know to be untrue. The Opposition have been consistent in the matter since it was first raised with us. We have not varied at any time in the position we took up and the Taoiseach must know that.