Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We have reached Committee Stage of the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill which I hope to take in the coming weeks. The budget Bill will be brought to the Cabinet next Tuesday and published either on Wednesday or Thursday. I know that is ambitious, but I hope to have it done and dusted in both Dáil and the Seanad before the Houses go into recess in December. I expect to publish the employment rights legislation at some stage at the beginning or in the middle of December. As I suggested to Deputy Willie O'Dea and others yesterday, it might be ambitious, but we will start the debate before Christmas if we can.