Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein)

I object to the proposed Order of Business on the basis that this is not an adequate debate. We should be debating a motion endorsing the recommendations in the Moriarty tribunal report. I thank the judge for completing his investigation on behalf of the Dáil. It is not acceptable for us to deal with this through a serious of speeches.

I note that the Government is to give Deputy Lowry a full hour and 20 minutes to speak, which is more than the total amount given to questions at the end of the statements. Deputy Lowry, on whom I do not make any judgment at this point, has had 14 years, through the tribunal, to give an account of what happened. The Government should make time for a motion of censure. Sinn Féin has submitted such a motion, and we want to see the Government giving time to ensure it is debated this week. We also need to know, in the course of any proper debate, precisely what the Government will do to establish a process for implementing the recommendations of the Moriarty report. It has said that it accepts the recommendations, as I and Sinn Féin also do, but we need to know how they will be processed.

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