Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)

In the present economic climate, one would assume that a certain urgency would be accorded to matters of financial nature. The Government's legislation programme contains a proposal "to consolidate and modernise financial services legislation in accordance with the Government's Better Regulation agenda". Its current publication status is "not possible to indicate at this stage". I refer to the financial services regulation Bill, which I would have thought was an urgently required item of legislation that was more important than the control of dogs (amendment) Bill, the Bill pertaining to plastic bags or the other Bills that now have made their way onto the pink paper. Obviously, the Government thinks otherwise.

Another highly pertinent item of legislation is "to bring greater clarification and simplification to the companies code and to modernise Irish company law through the consolidation of the existing 13 Company Law Acts, other regulations-----

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