The Finance (Local Property Tax)(Amendment) Bill will be rushed through the Dáil again. The original Bill was rushed through and during the Committee Stage of that Bill we only reached one item on which we could vote and all others fell. The proposal is that we deal with Second Stage next Friday with a guillotine imposed and then all remaining Stages on the following Tuesday. From the note provided to the Whips it is clear that this is to facilitate a bulk mailshot on 9 March by the Revenue Commissioners advising people how much they have to pay in this new tax. This is completely unacceptable. This is the Chamber that decides how we order business and not the Revenue Commissioners. We do not dance to anybody else's tune. We should have appropriate time to consider the implications of this amendment Bill. We should have time to discuss all the amendments that will be tabled by our party and other Members. I ask the Tánaiste to reconsider the scheduling to allow appropriate time.

Yesterday in Brussels, agreement was reached on the two-pack which allows for greater surveillance by European institutions of budgets in Ireland and other member states. Will this agreement mean that Ireland will continue to be under the scrutiny of the ECB and European Commission even after we leave the bailout mechanism? Will the budget now be moved to the middle of October as a result of the agreement? Will legislation be required to implement the agreement reached in Brussels?

The Finance (Local Property Tax)(Amendment) Bill is to provide for a number of improvements to the existing legislation. I would have thought that the Deputy would be in favour of many of those improvements, including, for example, the exemption for homes affected by pyrite and the arrangements proposed for social housing whether it is local authority housing or the voluntary housing associations. I am surprised that the Deputy wants to block those improvements in the-----

We want more time. The Tánaiste should not be disingenuous.

We have asked for more time.

If the Government had given the original Bill more time, it might not have needed to rush through an amendment to it a couple of months later.

This is a Government that wants to improve the legislation we have.

Bringing the Revenue Commissioners into people's homes.

It is scheduled to be debated in the House on Friday, 1 March and that is a reasonable arrangement.

The agreement reached yesterday will now need to be considered by member states. The Government will consider that agreement. No decision has been reached on the date for the budget.