Paul Coghlan (Fine Gael)

Senator O'Toole asked yesterday about No. 12 on the Order Paper, the Privacy Bill 2006, but I understand he was more concerned with it being abolished rather than when it will be taken. No. 11 is the Defamation Bill 2006, which is ordered for this session. When does the Leader believe this will be taken?

In the past several days, the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland has referred to the outrageous cases of invalidation of planning applications in different local authority areas. It has described some of the authorities as dysfunctional in this regard. There are allegations that applications were invalidated because site notices were the wrong colour, for example, or the application form, though provided by the relevant council, was out of date. This points to a crazy situation.

No. 24 is the resumption of statements on planning and related issues. Will the Leader bring forward this debate and ask the Minister to come to the House? May those of us who have already contributed to this debate be allowed do so again? This is a serious matter and all of us agree that uniformity in these matters should be in evidence nationally.