Paul Coghlan (Fine Gael)

Will the Leader say whether the House should draw any conclusions from the re-ordering of the positions of both the Privacy Bill and the Defamation Bill on the Order Paper? Heretofore, the Privacy Bill tended to appear in preferential order to the Defamation Bill. Is it intended to drop the Privacy Bill altogether from the Order Paper? When is it proposed to take one or the other of Bills or both of them? Will the Leader clarify in what order the Government intends to proceed in that area and on the issue of the press council?

I would like to support what Senator O'Toole said about Dingle, Daingean Uí Chúis, An Daingean. We all understood a commitment was given in this regard. The Official Languages (Amendment) Bill is No. 6 on the Order Paper. The Government may have a plan and, in the event, we would like to hear what it is. We believe this matter was in the process of being resolved. It was raised yesterday in the Dáil and I would like to hear about it from the Leader.

Last week the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government pledged his support, in principle at least, for the electronic voting system——