Trevor Sargent (Dublin North, Green Party)

I will deal with that matter after the Order of Business. With your permission, a Cheann Comhairle, I wish to thank Members and staff in the House for their expressions of sympathy on the very sudden death of the General Secretary of the Green Party, Comhaontas Glas, Dermot Hamilton. I am sure the House will join me in offering condolences to his wife, Patricia, and his teenage daughter, Kelly. Members of the House will understand that the loss of a general secretary to any political party is traumatic but to lose a general secretary in his 40s due to a sudden heart attack on his way into work is very difficult to come to terms with on a personal as well as a political level. I thank the Members of the House once again. I would like to remember Dermot Hamilton and the pressures that are on all of us involved in political life. Our thoughts are with his family at this time.

I want to raise a matter on promised legislation which the Tánaiste may know more about than most given that the area in question is close to her own base. I realise the Abbotstown Sports Campus Development Authority Bill is on the pink list but this is the fifth time it has been promised for this session. Is there any credibility in having it on the pink list given that it is the fifth time to be in that position? Is there any light at the end of that particular tunnel?

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