The final Stages of the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013 are taking place in the Seanad and a report on the self-employed will come before the Oireachtas-----

Does this concern promised legislation?

Yes.

The Bill is going through the Seanad.

I wish to speak about the self-employed.

You cannot do so on the Order of Business. You may put down a question.

I will finish by saying that the Minister, Deputy Burton, has done great work for self-employed people.

That is grand.

She is wonder woman.

Will legislation be brought to the Houses for self-employed people who need social welfare entitlements?

Is there promised legislation in the area?

I agree that the Minister, Deputy Burton, has done outstanding work in the area.

Yes, she has done more than a Minister in any other Government.

Hear, hear.

That is right.

She is wonder woman all right.

As an independent.

She even managed to take some people off boards.

Deputies are losing time.

Some 80% of self-employed people who have sought social protection have been looked after by the Minister, which is more than Fianna Fáil, the Green Party or Independents have done.

She has taken a few of them off boards as well.

We only have ten minutes left and a number of Deputies wish to ask questions. Please be fair, as there should not be a debate on the Order of Business.

The Deputy is right and the Minister has vindicated her position on the social welfare system in a way that is in marked contrast to the neglect of that issue under Fianna Fáil in Government.

Hear, hear.

When she has completed her work on the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill, I have no doubt she will return to the larger issue.