Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

Looking at legislation under the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform, I count 13 Bills which do not seem to have moved far on the list. They include the defence of life and property Bill, the heads of which were to have been published in February; the crimes Bill; the criminal justice (confiscation orders) Bill; the criminal justice (DNA database) Bill; the criminal justice (money laundering) Bill; the criminal justice (suppression of acts of nuclear terrorism) Bill; the criminal justice (trafficking in persons and sexual exploitation of children) Bill; the criminal justice (UN Convention against Corruption) Bill; the family law Bill; the legal costs Bill; and the trusts Bill. Will the Minister indicate the position regarding these Bills?

A report cited in today's Irish Independent states that one in five children of 12 years of age know where to get drugs and the drug culture is encroaching on the lives of primary school children. The main findings of the report are that 64% of those aged between 12 and 19 years had smoked——

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