Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)

It is a matter for the Houses to organise their business through the Whips. We cannot delay the progress on the legislation and I will not delay it. We have indicated here in respect of a number of amendments that we must go back to the Parliamentary Counsel. The same must apply to those that must be dealt with in the future. It is a work in progress and parliamentarians understand that. No piece of legislation walks through both Houses without amendments and Ministers going back, listening to Members and saying they will get the Parliamentary Counsel to examine them, as I have done on three or four occasions today. However I stated the sequence of events very clearly in my Second Stage speech and I outlined that we were still at a stage where some parts of it had to be dealt with by the Attorney General's office. Earlier today I said the implementation plan is to be in place by the end of the year. Then we can move whatever provisions need legislation into the legislative framework. It is a practical way of getting this major piece of legislation into place.