Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

——that we will endeavour to have that done by the weekend. It is the view of the people advising the Government, who are all eminent legal people, both inside and outside, that this could take us a week or so to do. I have asked that they have it done by the weekend. Deputy Rabbitte will appreciate that I am unlikely to draft it in the 46 hours or so I am in the United States, but I will be back by the weekend and we can clear it then. If we have it ready, which, as I said to Deputy Kenny, we intend to do, the House will sit and deal with it next week. I am trying to deal with a serious issue in a serious way and not just make partisan points.

Deputy Rabbitte is trying to say that everything is struck out by the Supreme Court or that a child going out tonight can be attacked by every lunatic and there is no law to deal with that.

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