Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

There is further change to the schedule of business. The Multi-Unit Development Bill was scheduled for Report and Final Stages. That is the Bill to do with management companies and it has fallen off the schedule to be replaced by the Dublin mayor Bill. There are literally tens of thousands of people waiting six or seven years and we are within an ace of completing the Bill. It looks like the house of cards could come down before the Bill and it could fall. Meanwhile, the Taoiseach gives the slot to keep the Minister, Deputy John Gormley, on board. If that is the only way the Taoiseach can keep him on board, I know what I would tell him to do with his Dublin mayor Bill.

We need to complete this legislation and I ask the Taoiseach to give a commitment to the House that we will complete it before Christmas.

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