I move: "That Second Stage be ordered for Tuesday, 4 December 1990."
Fisheries (Amendment) Bill, 1990: Order for Second Stage.
An Act to amend the law relating to fisheries and for that purpose to provide for the abolition of licences for angling for trout or coarse fish; to provide for the establishment of fisheries co-operative societies for the development and regulation of trout and coarse fishing in fisheries regions; to make further provision for the election of members of regional boards; to provide for the issue of further classes of salmon rod licences, and to provide for other matters connected with the matters aforesaid.
When was that Bill circulated? We are asked to agree to an order relating to a Bill that we have not yet seen. It is entirely unprecedented, and so is the unseemly haste with which at this late stage this year-and-a-half old——
(Interruptions.)
It is an outrageous procedure.
For heaven's sake, the Deputy has been demanding and crying out for this Bill for six months, and now he has it and does not want to take it.
We have not.
(Interruptions.)
We are going through spurious motions and we have not yet seen the Bill.
Question put and agreed to.