Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

I can see the problem with the running mates.

I congratulate and compliment the finance committee on the outstanding work it did in this House last week in its line by line scrutiny of the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, legislation. It did a fine parliamentary job and it was most unfair of the Government or Government sources to suggest that because members of the finance committee were doing their duty in scrutinising the legislation, they were somehow delaying the legislation. However, since the Government took that unfair approach, will the Taoiseach explain why the Report Stage amendments that were to be put down by the Minister for Finance will not be dealt with on Report Stage in this House but will be tabled in the Seanad instead? Can he indicate the additional time it will take for the NAMA legislation to pass as a result of taking the route of having these amendments brought before the Seanad first and then having them brought before this House?

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