I read in the Sunday Independent last Sunday that Deputies Olivia Mitchell, Eoghan Murphy and Mary Mitchell O'Connor, to mention a few, are extremely concerned about the unfairness of the Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill and in particular its application to Dublin house owners, who will be expected to pay six times more than the owner of an identical house outside of Dublin. This is an issue of great concern for people throughout the country. Despite the fact that we warned about this during the guillotining of the Bill before Christmas, when it was rammed through in a matter of days in a very unsatisfactory manner, it now seems that Members on the Government benches are waking up to the full implications of that legislation.

Deputy Martin knows all about guillotines.

Perhaps this indicates and illustrates the need to give more time to legislation when it is put before the House. I have a question in terms of forthcoming legislation that I want to ask the Tánaiste in this context. The Minister for Finance has already committed to having a provision in the finance Bill to exempt the owners of pyrite homes from the property tax. Can the Tánaiste confirm the commitments already made to the effect that there will be further amendments to the property tax in the context of the finance Bill as suggested by the Fine Gael Deputies that I have mentioned?

Sorry, Deputy, you are straying somewhat.

The rest of the House would like to share in any suggestion that there would be amendments.

Are there promised amendments to this legislation?

When will that finance Bill be published?

A Cheann Comhairle, on the same Bill-----

Hold on and sit down for one minute, please. We are dealing with the Leaders first.

I saw a leaflet that Deputy Martin distributed in his constituency. It struck me that although he is less than two years in opposition he has already forgotten that in fact his Government had agreed with the troika at the time the memorandum of understanding was reached that it would bring in a property tax that would raise €500 million.

The Tánaiste disagreed with that at the time.

Deputy Martin omitted any reference to that in his leaflet.

The Labour Party has forgotten a lot of its promises in government.

The Tánaiste is top of the class in that.

Deputies are using up time that would be available to Members seeking to raise issues.

The finance Bill will be published this session in February. Matters of detail in the finance Bill will be for the debate that will take place.