Feargal Quinn (Independent)

I move amendment No. 36:

In page 22, subsection (1), line 41, to delete "30 June" and substitute "31 March".

We should be grateful for small mercies. When I came into this House ten years ago, Ministers fought tooth and nail against the notion that any time limit should be placed on the preparation of a State body's report. I remember looking for the previous year's RTÉ report on 1 December and discovering it had not yet been published. RTÉ had finished the report some time before and had sent it, but it had not been published. I am glad to say that over the ten years I have worn opposition to publication down to the extent that the time limit is now firmly embedded in the word processors of the parliamentary counsel and it tends to turn up in every Bill.