Liam Twomey (Fine Gael)

Before we finish up I wish to point out that at all times we attempted to facilitate the Government in getting this legislation through as quickly as possible because of the very important deadline of tomorrow. It will be important legislation in the financial regulation of our economy and we fully endorse many of the sections in the Bill. We are disappointed the section dealing with ministerial pensions was pushed in such a fashion and we were not given the clarity we wanted on it. We would have preferred to have had more time to debate it further to see if we could have supported the Government on the issue. I regret that we had to vote against the Government in trying to get this legislation through. There was a good reason for it.