David Cullinane (Sinn Fein)

I will not waste my time, because I have two minutes. I have a number of amendments down and I am sure I will get to many of the substantive points I want to make. However, it is important to put on the record that guillotining Bills such as this, which are important and which deserve proper scrutiny, is not what the Government promised in its programme for Government. Many among the public, sometimes fairly and sometimes unfairly, are cynical about politics and the political system. When there are Bills such as this which deal with the pay of senior Ministers and which deal with the pay of senior staff in the public service-----