I have questions regarding three pieces of promised legislation from the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation. What is the position regarding the proposal for primary legislation to deal with the amalgamation of the Competition Authority and the National Consumer Agency? What is the position on the promised legislation to rationalise the industrial relations employee rights institutions, the Labour Court, the Labour Relations Commission, the National Employment Rights Authority, the Employment Appeals Tribunal and the Equality Tribunal? Also, what is the position with regard to the promised legislation relating to the review of city and county enterprise boards?

The heads of the consumer and competition Bill have been approved and it is expected it will be published this session. With regard to industrial relations, the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act 2012 was enacted on 24 July this year. The heads of the Bill on the dissolution of the county enterprise boards were approved by the Government about one week ago and the Bill is expected to be published in 2013.

I think the Tánaiste made a mistake with regard to the second item of legislation when he spoke about legislation published in July. I have a note from his colleague, Deputy Howlin, by way of response to a parliamentary question, in which he said that significant progress had been made to date on the new two-tier general scheme Bill approved by Government. I think the Tánaiste may have been referring to some other legislation.

I apologise, but I picked the question up wrongly. The legislation in question is the workplace relations Bill, which will provide for reform of statutory workplace relations bodies. The heads of that Bill were approved by Government on 20 July and publication of the Bill is expected early in 2013.