Yes. What is happening to the criminal justice legislative programme? When the House rose for the summer recess, of the three Bills promised by the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, not one of them was published. In April of this year, the Minister listed six Bills that were to be published in 2004 — the coroner's Bill, the criminal justice miscellaneous provisions Bill, the fines Bill, the judicial conduct and ethics Bill, the parental leave Bill and the prisons Bill. We are now told, according to the latest legislative programme, that none of those Bills will be published in 2004 for debate in this House — they are not expected to be published until 2005. In addition, the Minister has no idea when other key criminal law Bills — the drug offenders Bill, the crimes Bill and the DPP Bill, to allow the DPP appeal against District Court sentences — will be brought before the House.
I know the Minister is preoccupied with other matters and that he is closeted with two senior counsel——