Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour)

The Local Government (Mayor and Regional Authority of Dublin) Bill 2010 which was due to be debated in the House yesterday and today has been removed from the Dáil schedule. When the Bill was introduced earlier this month it was associated with the Minister, Deputy Gormley, as being a legacy issue when the Green Party argued to get onto the programme for Government. However, given that the Bill has now been taken off this week's Dáil schedule, can it be taken that it has been scrapped, will not proceed and that the Stages which were laid out to be completed over the next number of months will not be arrived at because we will have a general election within the next couple of weeks, if not months? Can the Taoiseach clarify whether the Bill will be completed?

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