I will try to be brief. I hope the landlord and tenant Bill, along with the national paediatric hospital development board (amendment) Bill can be prioritised and fast-tracked.

These Bills are on the legislative programme. The landlord and tenant Bill is not scheduled until next year. No timeframe has been announced for the national paediatric hospital development board (amendment) Bill. What is the position on the technological universities Bill, given that Waterford Institute of Technology has pulled out of talks on amalgamation with Carlow Institute of Technology? Should this Bill also be fast-tracked to ensure the amalgamation process can be put back on stream so as to have a university in the south west?

I understand the landlord and tenant legislation will be ready in the middle of next year. I understand work is ongoing in the Department of Health on the national paediatric hospital development board (amendment) Bill. I do not have an exact date for the Deputy but I will come back to him on it. There has been considerable work done on the technological universities Bill, as the Deputy probably knows. I anticipate it will be ready next year. There have been significant advances concerning two of the groups that are to use the mechanism in question, one in Dublin and one in the south and south west. The Deputy's comment probably refers to the material in the media on Waterford. As the Deputy knows, the Government is absolutely committed to building, expanding and investing in Waterford Institute of Technology. I do not want to comment on what I saw in the newspapers-----

We cannot have a discussion on this topic.

-----but I know the Minister and others were quite surprised.