Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour)

Several Bills have been and are to be guillotined this week. Earlier in the year, there were weeks during which we had hardly any legislation at all to discuss. In the next session, instead of the Government giving us a schedule of Bills, which is basically just a list of Bills and publication dates that may or may not have any relationship with reality, could it instead give us an actual timetable setting out the exact months on which promised Bills are to be dealt with and the number of days that will be allowed for considering them in each House? Can we deal with legislation from the beginning of the year so we can make progress in a paced way, thus preventing us from having to rush through legislation at the end of the year, as we have done this year?

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