Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

I wish to raise two matters with the Taoiseach. One concerns an item of legislation he promised at the Fianna Fáil Ard-Fheis during which he said legislation would be brought in to require groups campaigning in referendum campaigns to submit details of their funding and expenditure to the Standards in Public Office Commission. When will that legislation appear? Will it be enacted before a second referendum is held on the Lisbon treaty?

Second, the Minister for Finance, when in London recently, promised to introduce legislation to ban cross-directorships and chief executives becoming chairpersons of their companies and said that such legislation would be designed to crack down on crony capitalism in Ireland. When will the crony capitalism legislation be introduced?

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