Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

I have looked at the new legislative programme announced by the Government Chief Whip, the Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach, Deputy Kitt. It is rather like The Scarlet Pimpernel because I cannot find a reference to the critical infrastructure Bill in it. This was the central point of the Taoiseach's speech to the Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis in Killarney two years ago. It seems unusual that it has disappeared from the Government agenda, obviously at the prompting of the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform. It is equally bizarre to read the statement of the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government who is not present that while incinerators are to be part of the critical infrastructure Bill, one incinerator, proposed for Ringsend, is not.

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