Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

I wish to ask the Taoiseach about the ordering of business for the remainder of this session. We have started this session at a pedestrian pace and much of the legislation the Government is bringing before the House is on Second Stage. In previous years, the same pattern was followed and we found ourselves, in the last couple of weeks, with a large amount of legislation being put before the House, sometimes at short notice, sometimes with a very short time for debate and usually with the aid of the guillotine.Will the Taoiseach indicate to the House which legislation on the Government's schedule he intends to have enacted by the end of this session? Will he at this stage give an assurance to the House that the guillotine will not be used in the way it has in previous years?

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