Seán Ó Fearghaíl (Kildare South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There are three Bills emanating from the Department of Defence which appear on the B and C lists of the legislative programme - namely, Nos. 36, 66 and 67. When will the Bills be brought before the House? Will any of them address the very serious concerns expressed at the PDFORRA conference in the last 24 hours? We are now hearing reports that 20% of members of the Defence Forces are living in poverty and in receipt of family income supplement, and that five members of the Defence Forces are sleeping in their cars as a consequence of the reorganisation inflicted on the Defence Forces by the former Minister, Deputy Alan Shatter.

I welcome the fact that tomorrow we will debate the report of the Constitutional Convention on blasphemy. However, this leaves quite a number of reports outstanding. The Taoiseach has had to accept in the past that he set a number of deadlines in respect of the convention and the manner in which its reports would be dealt with. None of those deadlines has been met in so far as the Government is concerned. Can the Taoiseach assure the House that the outstanding reports will now be prioritised?

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