Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

I wish to raise three matters with the Taoiseach. First, the Government, in response to the Labour Party's Private Members' motion, which will be considered later, has offered to extend the Dáil sitting by a week, from 7 July to 11 July. Will there be Leaders' Questions and written and oral parliamentary questions during that week, as is normal practice?

Yesterday, the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government published the report of the boundary review for local authority electoral areas. Does the Government accept the report and, if so, how and when will it be implemented?

Last night during the division on the approval for the arrangements for the prison at Thornton Hall, I noted the Government was under sufficient vote pressure, so much so that the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, Deputy Cullen, was forced to attend in his evening wear.

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