Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

Work is proceeding on the Wildlife (Amendment) Bill and the Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill will come before the Dáil as soon as Committee Stage is completed. Bills have been referred to committees and we need to start putting some time-frames on the consideration of Bills in committees because some of them are doing work other than legislative work. Leader rightly complain in this House that Bills are not returning to the House quickly enough. When one checks the situation it appears that a lot of other activity is going on in committee which-----

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