Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

This is a very serious matter. As I said to other Deputies in the House, it has taken up a huge deal of the time of the parliamentary draftsman and the officials from the different Departments and the Attorney General's office. We expect to publish the Bill before the end of June. I would like to see it being discussed in this House or the Seanad before the summer recess. It may not be possible to have it concluded because of its scale - it is an enormous Bill - but I would certainly like to see it published and being debated in the Oireachtas because we regard it as being central to the issue that is of so much concern to people out there every day. Deputy O'Brien can believe me when I say it is legislation that has the absolute concentration and focus of Government. I am sure that when he sees what is involved in it, he will appreciate the scale of the work that has gone into it.

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