Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

This was announced on 7 April. It is now 23 June and we are told it has to be done immediately to facilitate the introduction of statutory instruments. I asked the Taoiseach what was not a complicated question but simply when the statutory instruments will appear and he cannot tell me. This is not about the position the Labour Party took in September. We know that and I am quite happy to defend that anywhere. This is about whether the Taoiseach and the Government knows what it is doing in this whole area and if it is up to doing it.

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