Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

With your permission, a Cheann Comhairle, I do not want to leave this matter hanging. The McCarthy report has been published. It will be considered by the Government and by individual Departments. The Government is agreeable to have the report debated in the House. The opinions of any Member about the contents of the report or where it is going can be set out in the course of that debate. We are agreeable to have the debate by arrangement with the Whips and to have it as early as possible on our resumption after Easter.

I assure the Deputy that there is no legislation. There are no proposals on the table at present. Nothing will be sold by anybody before the debate takes place in the House.

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