Frances Fitzgerald (Fine Gael)

This is a serious question. Is the Government so distracted that it is just not getting to the real business of the Dáil and Seanad, which is passing legislation? The Leader might consider this and ensure that more legislation comes before the House.

One of the Ministers has been quite distracted this week by a fleeting report on an RTE programme about a Minister taking cocaine. There was no internal RTE inquiry when Professor Crown was dropped from "The Late Late Show". One would think a Minister's career had been destroyed and that there was a family begging on the streets.