Brendan Ryan (Labour)

I am delighted with the degree to which the House was able to agree on various matters in my absence. I hope it was a coincidence. I am glad the Leader and the Committee on Procedure and Privileges managed to change the number of Members on committees. I pay tribute to her. She has always been more than willing to be agreeable. Because of this, she is particularly difficult to deal with when she chooses to be otherwise. We have only seen one side so far and I am glad to see that it is in the ascendancy.

The Leader responded more or less positively to a request from my colleague, Senator McDowell, to a debate on the report of the Flood Tribunal and on the Lindsay Tribunal report, which disappointed by failing to draw conclusions from the evidence. Has the Leader made any progress on scheduling those debates?