I have a number of issues.

There will be no debate on housing.

I have asked at Whips' meetings in particular given the crisis-----

After another five years and the Government might have staved off another crisis.

Please, Deputy Ó Snodaigh has the floor.

Given the international crisis with refugees coming from the war-torn areas of Syria in particular and also from Kurdistan and places like that, can we have a debate quite quickly given the pronouncements made before the Dáil resumed to ensure that all the parties can lend support for Ireland to play its full part?

In her response to my question on Leaders' Questions, the Tánaiste mentioned the Dublin Docklands in particular. However, the legislation is stuck on Second Stage. If she believes that is the mechanism by which the Government will address the needs of those who are in Longboat Quay, will the Government accelerate that so that Dublin City Council, with hopefully the support of Government and legislation, can take charge and do what the Tánaiste is suggesting? It is not the full answer.

I ask about the Convention on the Constitution. On a number of occasions I have asked for debates on the outstanding reports from the convention which I have repeatedly praised as a having been a good experiment in participatory democracy. However, by the Oireachtas failing to have debates within the time it had set out, we are insulting the chair and those who took part. There was a commitment that those reports - there are three if not four left to be discussed - would be debated in the Chamber within three months of publication. At this stage it is almost two years since publication of some of those reports.

On the important issue of debating all the reports from the Convention on the Constitution, I would be happy to suggest to the Whips, including Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh, that they might provide for more Friday and Monday sittings so that if we have a backlog we can utilise the time to allow the Members to come in here and debate-----

The problem is that Departments are delaying it.

I am just trying to be helpful to the House. We have no difficulty in putting on additional time and particularly utilising Fridays and Mondays to address any of the outstanding recommendations that the Deputy feels would benefit from more detailed discussion and debate in here. We can provide a lot of time for that and I am sure many Deputies would be anxious to avail of the time to debate that in detail in here.

I understand the Dublin Docklands legislation will be in next week.

If, as a Whip, the Deputy discusses having a debate on refugees with his fellow Whips, the Government would certainly be happy to facilitate that. We have agreed in discussions with the European Union to accept a number of refugees under the European programme particularly from war-torn countries such as Syria. If there is agreement among the Whips on that issue, we would be happy to do it. As the Deputy knows, a number of people are already coming in and there is considerable co-ordination between the different agencies, including the Red Cross, which will provide services. The last time we had a significant number of programme refugees coming in, it was as a result of the conflict in Bosnia. So we have considerable experience collectively as a society of addressing these very important and significant humanitarian issues of rescuing people from what has been happening in the dreadful conflict in Syria.

As seven Members wish to make a contribution, I ask for brevity.