Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

On the first matter, the Cabinet sub-committee is looking at this issue and we have had advice from the Attorney General. We discussed the matter yesterday and received a report from the Tánaiste who answered questions on the issue in the House yesterday. We will move ahead on the issues. The Deputy will appreciate there are many complex issues and questions about the categories and we will have to work our way through them. It will take some time before we get to legislation. We will have to work on the handling of the various categories that have been identified in the Supreme Court judgment, based on what the Tánaiste said in the House on Leaders' Questions yesterday.

The Abbotstown Bill will be taken this session. There is an examination of what happened around those issues and the official there has made some statements about this. The transport programme will be announced today.

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