Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)

There is legislation promised to consolidate and modernise financial legislation in accordance with the Government's "better regulation" agenda. The front of the Bill states: "Publication expected: Not possible to indicate at this stage." I discovered that 35 Bills are proposed for 2010, yet there is no status indicated for 21 of them at this stage. Since progress this year has been relatively poor and since there is very little time left in the legislative calendar, will any special plan be put in place to bring in urgently required Bills, such as the financial legislation to which I referred?

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