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Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)

Bernard Durkan: It is a good question.

Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)

Bernard Durkan: The Deputy is correct. It costs the State a fortune.

Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)

Bernard Durkan: Hear, hear.

Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)

Bernard Durkan: My question for the Tánaiste regards the extent, if any, to which discussion on the heads of the Bill to provide for the regulation and assessment of legal costs has taken place in Cabinet. Has any agreement been reached on the heads? Are they being drafted? When is it likely the Bill will come before the House?

Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)

Bernard Durkan: That is not what I asked. I asked whether the heads of the Bill had been discussed in Cabinet, to what extent they were discussed and whether any agreement had been reached on them.

Order of Business (25 Feb 2010)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Tánaiste.

Employment Agency Regulation Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2010)

Bernard Durkan: He was going nowhere.

Employment Agency Regulation Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2010)

Bernard Durkan: It was going nowhere.

Employment Agency Regulation Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2010)

Bernard Durkan: The Minister of State was very good on the radio this morning, but he is not so good now.

Employment Agency Regulation Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2010)

Bernard Durkan: There was a bigger crisis being generated in this country, and the Minister of State knows that, too.

Employment Agency Regulation Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2010)

Bernard Durkan: Many people are worried about the Government in that regard.

Employment Agency Regulation Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2010)

Bernard Durkan: Do not go there. The Minister of State is a very nice guy, and I am very fond of him, but he should not-----

Employment Agency Regulation Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2010)

Bernard Durkan: I do not want him to be embarrassing himself.

Employment Agency Regulation Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2010)

Bernard Durkan: That is why the Government did not get paid by the bank. It got shares instead.

Employment Agency Regulation Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2010)

Bernard Durkan: There is a sinking feeling out there now.

Employment Agency Regulation Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2010)

Bernard Durkan: The only thing that damaged the economy was the Government over there and the Minister of State knows that as well as I do.

Employment Agency Regulation Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2010)

Bernard Durkan: As John Wayne said, "That'll be the day".

Employment Agency Regulation Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2010)

Bernard Durkan: Why was that?

Employment Agency Regulation Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2010)

Bernard Durkan: It was because no one could buy a house ever again.

Employment Agency Regulation Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2010)

Bernard Durkan: I apologise a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. The Minister of State was upsetting me.