I wish to address the point made on the amendment to the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act and the Personal Insolvency Act. I do not wish to labour the point, but I also wish to follow on from what the Minister very ably mentioned today, namely, her stated support for Deputy Willie Penrose's proposed one-year bankruptcy legislation. I urge her to complete the readmission of Deputy Penrose into the Labour Party and, maybe the logical extension of that, readmission into Cabinet-----

He is in the Labour Party.

He never left the party.

Deputy Penrose never left the party.

He never left the party.

He never left the party, unlike some people in this House.

The Minister could arrange two readmissions, one to her party and the second to the Cabinet in order that this Bill could be fast-tracked.

I get the point. Does the Minister have anything to say?

Did Deputy Mathews not look for his job?

This is extremely important.

We know that, but it is out of order as well.

We know that.

The reason this is very important is that 120,000 human souls are deeply traumatised, including children. There is no point in bringing in legislation about children when under our noses thousands are today under deep, traumatic stress because their parents are under even further stress. The number of human beings concerned would fill two to three Aviva stadiums.

Is the question on Deputy Penrose's Bill? Could the Minister please respond?

Will the Government co-sign the Bill and get it through as quickly as it did the Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act yesterday? How about that?

I already said that Deputy Penrose's Bill makes a very important contribution. He has spoken very passionately about the exact points Deputy Mathews has made.

The Government should join him.

Deputy Mathews should listen.

The Government as a whole will consider a number of measures.

The Government should stop considering the matter and take action.

Could I correct the record to the effect that Deputy Willie Penrose did not leave the Labour Party?

It left him.

He left the parliamentary party.

He has consistently been a member of the Labour Party and he is back in the parliamentary party.

He was not a member of the parliamentary party.

As I am not the Taoiseach, I do not have the power to put him back into the Cabinet.

Perhaps the Minister should do that.