Will the Taoiseach be meeting the new British Prime Minister in Rome this week-end? If at that meeting the question of talks on the North comes up, in that context will he report back to the House next week?
Order of Business (Resumed).
It is not relevant to the Order of Business, Deputy.
It is relevant to a great many people in this country.
That may be so but there are ways and means of raising such matters in this House.
I want to draw the attention of the House to the fact that it is three years since we had a Dáil committee on crime, owing to the Government's refusal to allow the committee to be reconstituted on the same basis as in the time of the National Coalition Government. Will the Taoiseach agree——
We had this matter yesterday.
We seem to be making no progress. Will the Taoiseach agree to allow the committee to be reconstituted on the same basis as it was during the 1982-87 period with an Opposition chairman? Will the Taoiseach now agree to let that go through and not hold up the re-establishment of that committee?
I cannot permit a rehash of yesterday's reference to this matter.
We will have to keep rehashing it.
Deputy O'Keeffe should raise it at a more effective and appropriate time.
In view of the recent increases in bus fares, the difficulties being faced by the Irish Road Haulage Association and other people involved in road haulage and by Irish airlines, let me ask the Taoiseach when it is intended to bring forward the promised transport legislation.
We had that a couple of days ago.
In view of the fact that the various problems I have mentioned are facing the transport industry, will the transport legislation address the various matters I have mentioned or will it address only one of those matters?
The Deputy will have to wait until he sees it.
Shall we proceed to the Order of Business proper?
Perhaps the Taoiseach will help if he is in not too arrogant a mood. Item No. 2 on this morning's Order Paper cannot be circulated to Members until a motion is moved in the House. When is it intended to allow a motion to be moved in the House so that the report can be made public?
Is this the Committee of Public Accounts?
It is Report No. 2.
I suggest that the Whips discuss the matter.
With regard to promised legislation, can the Taoiseach say when it is proposed to take this urgent and much announced protection of part-time workers Bill?
Again, I dealt with this yesterday and the day before. I am answering the same questions all the time. I have told the House already that it will be published before Christmas and taken in the next session.
In view of the fact that other Heads of State have been invited to address the Dáil and Seanad, is it the Taoiseach's intention to invite Mr. John Major, the new Prime Minister in Great Britain, to address the Dáil and Seanad?
That is hardly relevant to the Order of Business, Deputy Harte.