Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

We can be helpful to the Taoiseach. Until yesterday, the draft schedule included the Local Government (Household Charges) Bill 2011 for Thursday and had approximately five hours of debating time set aside for it, too little time in any case. Despite the Tánaiste promising me on Thursday that legislation would be with us at the weekend and that it would be debated on Thursday, we have not had sight of it and it has been withdrawn from discussion on Thursday.

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