If this Bill was simply a holding operation to ensure the thousands of planning permissions did not wither at the end of this year, my party and I would support it. However, it is inappropriate to rush through the Houses of the Oireachtas legislation that is playing into the hands of Fianna Fáil's friends in the building industry – the funders of Fianna Fáil, the people who queue up to join those in the hospitality tent at Galway races. They are the people who lined up to fund Fianna Fáil's extravagant expenditure for the nine months before the general election and who will now make a fortune out of this.