Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

With regard to the business to be transacted tomorrow, I have no difficulty with No. 36 in respect of the financial motions. However, as the Taoiseach will be aware, we have been consistent in objecting to Bills being guillotined. I understand it is proposed to guillotine the Social Welfare Bill. This Bill concerns great numbers of people around the country, be they pensioners, people on various schemes or the unemployed. From that point of view, given these exceptional circumstances, it is a matter on which many Deputies will want to make a contribution. I object to it on the basis of a guillotine being proposed by the Government.

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