Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)

——it will eventuate in legislation which will address this problem. I am anxious to get that legislation through the House before the summer and I hope I can receive the co-operation of the different parties in the House. We are not going to be able to deal with all the problems in a short Bill to be enacted before the summer, but we can at least begin to address the problem. I am not convinced the problem, given its scale, can be tackled by one Bill put through the House before the summer.

As regards the previous work——

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