The promised legislation on bankruptcy proposes to reduce the length of bankruptcy from three years to one year. It was handed over to the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality, which reported to the Minister at the beginning of July after unanimously agreeing that it should be reduced to one year. That is the last we have heard of it. It is still sitting on the Minister's desk. Will the legislation be presented to the Dáil and, if so, when? Will it be before the general election?

Tá tamall fada ann ó chuir mé an cheist faoi Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla don chéad uair. Cathain a fhoilseofar an tAcht seo? Tá pobal na Gaeilge ag fanacht air le fada agus tá siad tuirseach leis na geallúintí atá briste ag an Rialtas. Níl go leor ama fágtha ag an Rialtas. Tá sé ar a last legs, mar a deirtear. An bhfuil dóthain ama ann an Bille a chur os comhair an Tí agus a chur i bhfeidhm roimh an earrach?

Tá sé i gceist go dtabharfar an Bille sin isteach le linn an tseisiúin seo. Tá súil agam go bhfuil neart ama ann le haghaidh díospóireachta faoi.

Roimh aimsir na Nollag.

Sea. Tá súil agam go dtarlóidh sé sin agus beidh cead ag an Teachta Adams labhairt faoi cibé atá ar a aigne aige.

On the bankruptcy Bill, the joint committee has sent a report to the Minister for Justice and Equality and she is considering it. I expect the legislation will come before the Cabinet in the next couple of weeks with a request to publish it. It has been mentioned on a few occasions. I think Deputy Adams might have stolen someone's thunder on it today. In any event, he is first out of the blocks.

Deputy Mathews looks amazed. Did he get a text from Deputy Adams?