Brendan Ryan (Labour)

Certainly, except that one of these matters was guillotined here and is still not finished. It was attempted to rush some of the other legislation through, although this was fought off by the Leader. These are still on the Dáil Order Paper, although we were expected to rush them through – before Christmas, in the case of the Immigration Bill 2002. Another Bill, utterly relevant to the current climate, was passed by this House in 2000 – the Containment of Nuclear Weapons Bill which was supposed to be our contribution to the prevention of the proliferation of nuclear weapons. A major war is now ongoing because of an attempt to get around this. The least we can do to show that we are serious about the issues raised by the war is to pass this Bill which has been on the Dáil Order Paper for the best part of three years. It is time something was done about it.