Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)

I wish also to support the proposition. While looking forward to the summer recess and the holiday opportunities as much as any Member of the House, there is every justification for an earlier return. We are on the last day of this sitting with no Government programme published. Despite what the Tánaiste said yesterday, the Government will hold the programme until we have all left and the earliest opportunity to address it in a real and careful way will be deferred until the end of September. The earlier return in order to examine exactly what the Government proposes to do, and not to be dependent on any one party's presentation of that, is in the interest not only of this House but of the roles and responsibilities entrusted to us.

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