Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

There is a crisis in the pre-NAMA period. There is serious concern among a range of enterprises over banks declining to give any credit or overdraft facilities because they assume that particular developers and so on will be taken over by the NAMA regime. This is a crisis in the intervening period. In the light of the Taoiseach's comments this morning, let us have a debate about the different proposals to sort out our fiscal and banking difficulties. When can we expect the NAMA legislation to be introduced? Will it happen in September? Has the Government any fixed date as to when the legislation will be prepared?

Fianna Fáil and the Green Party are to carry out a review of the programme for Government. The Minister, Deputy John Gormley, the leader of the Green Party, has said on a number of occasions that he would support holding a referendum on children's rights. Is that part of the Taoiseach's thinking given its importance?

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