Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

I am raising questions and making a point about the legislative programme the Government published today. In addition to the Bills I referred to, the Government has found a number of additional items of legislation about which it showed very little enthusiasm for the past three years. However, if it is going to prolong the pathetic life of this Government and allow it to continue in office for longer than the people want, it is quite happy to go along with it. According to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, we were going to have an election before the end of January. The end of January then did not mean the end of January and was adjusted to include the finance Bill so that the election might be in February or March.

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