Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

It is not agreed. I have already made it perfectly clear in the previous Dáil and at the start of this Dáil that we will not stand for the Government, off the top of its head, declaring that the guillotine will be used on every one of these Bills. The time should be open-ended. This matter is to do with stamp duty, in respect of which the Fianna Fáil party had no interest for the past ten years. It was provoked by the then leader of the Progressive Democrats who stated that the billions of euro collected in stamp duty were not required at all. The Green Party and others were very vociferous about these matters. The Government proposed relief for first-time buyers and this is supportable but a whole range of other areas need to be dealt with. For this reason and because of the number of Members who want to speak on this Bill, I object to a guillotine being proposed.

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