When will the social welfare and pensions Bill be published and when is it scheduled for debate in the Dáil? Will the Minister clarify the Government's plan to deduct at source from the income of social welfare recipients the so-called property tax? Will the mechanics for this be provided in the social welfare and pensions Bill or will there be new legislation from her Department? As a Labour Party Minister representing a constituency with an acute unemployment problem and given the hardship that follows austerity, will she seriously stand over the robbing of hundreds of euro from social welfare recipients and people on the poverty line by way of the new so-called property tax to bail out further bondholders and bankers?

I expect the social welfare and pensions Bill - the second social welfare Bill or the summer social welfare Bill, as it is termed - to be brought before the House early in the summer. With regard to the property tax, the legislation presented to the Dáil by the Minister for Finance and passed provided for a series of payment options, including making arrangements through the PAYE system and also through the social welfare and pensions system. These options will be available should people wish to exercise them.

For clarification purposes, is the Minister saying no further legislation is needed to provide for deduction at source of the new family home tax?

This is not Question Time; we cannot go into the detail of Bills. If the matter concerns separate legislation, I ask the Minister to respond.

The local property tax was dealt with in the legislation brought forward by the Minister for Finance before Christmas. I do not know if the Deputy had an opportunity to follow that debate, but all of the issues to which he referred were dealt with in that legislation.