Dan Boyle (Green Party)

No, it is an attempt to fill many of those gaps and to bring more coherent legislation before the Houses. The reason that it and much promised legislation is not before the House is that too much of the Government's and particularly the Attorney General's attention has been taken up with dealing with our fiscal crisis. Like everybody else, I consider that unfortunate as I would like to be debating far more legislation in this House. There are many key legislative measures in the programme for Government agreed last year which our party would like to have debated in both Chambers, and the climate change Bill is key among them. However, I am confident there will be progress on that legislation as well as the Bills on corporate donations and noise pollution before Christmas. The Senator can quote me on that as well.