Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)

Legislation that has been wandering around the Houses for some time and deemed to be important is before the Seanad, namely, the Multi-Unit Developments Bill 2009. When is it expected to be passed into law? Perhaps the Tánaiste can give us an idea of the precise deadline.

In terms of Bills in respect of which heads are yet to be approved by the Government, the financial services provisions Bill is intended "to transfer Ministerial responsibility for building societies from the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to the Minister for Finance and to provide for various other urgent miscellaneous amendments to financial services law". As far as I can see, the Bill has been around the Houses for the past two or three years. Will the Tánaiste indicate how the Bill intends to respond urgently, whether it has been discussed by the Cabinet and to what extent is it being progressed?

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