Darragh O'Brien (Fianna Fail)

I do not know where to start with all of that. On the use of guillotines, there are two important pieces of legislation before the House today with which we do not have any difficulty in broad terms. The European Financial Stability Facility and Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2011 is something on which there is agreement in the main in both Houses and by most parties. Again, all Stages of the Bill are to be taken.

I am particularly concerned, however, about the Thirtieth Amendment of the Constitution (Houses of the Oireachtas Inquiries) Bill 2011 on the basis that all Stages of the Bill are to be taken and the guillotine is being applied simply because the Bill must pass this week to fit into the Government timeframe for holding the referendum on the same date as the presidential election. That is understood. The Houses are back a couple of weeks, however, and we could have been brought back early.