I seek permission to raise on the Adjournment the chaos prevailing in the Land Registry and the fact that 50,000 cases are waiting to be dealt with.
Order of Business (Resumed).
I will communicate with the Deputy.
Like Deputy Ryan I was out at Santry Woods this morning and I would like to join with him in seeking to raise this matter on the Adjournment.
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I will communicate with the Deputy.
In the light of the announcement by the Minister of State, Deputy Harney, yesterday that she is going to have the distribution and sale of coal banned in the city area and that the regulations have not been brought to the House, when does she intend to bring the regulations before the House?
Not now Deputy Byrne; put down a question please.
There are 240,000 people affected by this order and I think the Fianna Fáil group owe us the opportunity to debate this issue in the House——
Deal with it in the more appropriate way, Deputy.
Will the Taoiseach agree to make time available in the House to discuss——
I am sorry Deputy Byrne, this is not in order.
Sir, I would like to ask you once again if I can have the Adjournment debate to ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will make representations to the US Government to clarify whether there has been a change of policy in relation to the issue of visitors' visas particularly for some classes of Irish people.
I will communicate with the Deputy.
I would like to raise on the Adjournment the ongoing work to rule in the FÁS offices in Limerick, Waterford and Cork which is already causing difficulties for people on social employment schemes and could have implications for 11,000 people nationally if allowed to continue.
I will be in touch with the Deputy concerning that matter.
I would like to raise on the Adjournment the continuing deterioration in conditions at Gairmscoil Colmcille in Indreabhán, Condae na Gaillimhe.
I will be in touch with the Deputy concerning that matter.
I would like to ask the Taoiseach — or, more importantly, the Minister for Tourism and Transport who is absent — in view of what was stated in the leading articles of the national newspapers on Sunday and which was not — I emphasise — officially denied, why the Teneriffe portfolio of Aer Lingus Holdings has been excluded from police investigations.
I want to facilitate the Deputy in eliciting information or raising a matter in the proper fashion, but he seems to be making a statement, which is not in order now.
This is a very serious and very important matter, one of public accountancy——
I am sure it is, and there are ways and means of dealing with it.
The Minister himself did not deny the statements——
I call Deputy Deenihan. Deputy Lee, resume your seat,
This is an important matter.
If the Deputy persists I will have no option but to ask him to leave the House.
Sir, can I have your permission to raise it on the Adjournment?
Do the Government intend to introduce the Irish Land Commission (Dissolution) Bill this term in view of the fact that it has been promised for the past four years?
It is on the list for this session.
It took a long time to establish that.
In order to facilitate the House and the Opposition parties so that we might be better prepared, in the light of the slowing down of the Government's legislative programme can the Taoiseach request his Whip to circulate a new list of the items the Government intend to take between now and the first week in July? The current list is clearly out of date and cannot be right.
On the one hand the Opposition keep asking for special debates on this, that and the other and, of course, that is interfering with our legislative programme.
How many debates have we had?
Will the Taoiseach agree that it is not unreasonable to presume that he, if not the rest of his Cabinet, has a clear idea of the legislation he would like to take between now and the first week in July? Would it not be in the interests of democracy if that revised and perhaps shortened list was circulated by his Chief Whip to the other Whips so that we could have a constructive debate in this House? Will he contemplate that?
If the Opposition will co-operate fully there is a mountain of legislation we will get through between now and the summer but unfortunately the Opposition can be a little long-winded——
We have never been asked.
——in dealing with some of this legislation.
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We waste half an hour every day on the Order of Business when most Deputies are completely out of order.
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Does the Taoiseach remember when he was over here?
The Deputy knows that my ultimate wish is to facilitate the Opposition in every possible way. The Deputy can be assured that our Whip will be in touch immediately regarding the getting of this monumental programme of legislation through the Dáil.
May I ask——
The most respectful thing we could do is allow business to proceed. We are not having a debate on this matter. The Taoiseach has replied to Deputy Quinn's two questions and we should be in a position to proceed.
The Taoiseach has sought the co-operation of the Opposition. That, I can say on behalf of the Labour Party, he will have. We would be all the more capable of giving full consideration if we had advance notice of the Bills it is proposed to take between now and July. I submit that the list which has been circulated is not capable of being dealt with between now and the first week of July.
We will all agree on Carmencita.
We have difficulty enough in talking about promised legislation and if we get into lists of promised legislation we will be at it long enough.
I would ask the Taoiseach when the EC Directive on product liability was supposed to have been implemented here and when legislation will be introduced.
Is legislation promised?
Legislation in that area. The question is rather unsuitably phrased. There is legislation in that area which is with the Attorney General.
It is two years late.