Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)

This has been going on for five years, since Deputies Burton, Rabbitte, myself and others first raised the issue. We have been getting a series of promises on legislation. The last solid promise we got was that the former Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy Brian Lenihan, would bring in legislation last March and it would be finalised. Questions were put on the matter before last Christmas and the promise was the legislation would be enacted by last March. Nothing has happened and we seem to be back further than we were at the beginning, with the Tánaiste saying the Attorney General has to make up his mind. Will the Tánaiste twist his tail or put a burr under it or something and make him make up his bloody mind? The people are suffering.

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