My colleague talked about the Waste Reduction (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017. This is one of 27 Bills in respect of which the Taoiseach is abusing his power and authority. These 27 Bills include the Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016, the Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016, the Consumer Insurance Contracts Bill 2017, the Coroners Bill 2015, the criminal justice Bill-----

This is not the same topic. This is a joke.

That is not the same matter.

-----the education Bill, the electoral Bill and another 20 Bills.

That is not the same matter.

It is.

It is not.

It is because it is the Waste Reduction (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017.

That is not the same topic.

The Waste Reduction (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017 is one of the 27 Bills-----

There should be one question on one matter. The Deputy should resume his seat.

The question is when will the Government stop abusing its authority and allow 27 Bills-----

The Deputy should resume his seat.

That is not the same topic.

-----some of which were passed unanimously in this House, to proceed to Committee Stage?

I invite Deputy Lawless to speak on the microbeads issue.

Actually, it is on the same matter, not a different matter.

Make up your mind now.

Essentially, it is very relevant. My issue is that the use of money messages as a device to frustrate the parliamentary business in this House-----

No. It is not a money message.

We have 117 Bills-----

I am sorry but-----

I am next up to speak anyway.

Every piece of legislation has been stalled by the Government.

This is not the way in which to address that particular issue. Deputy Stanley has raised an issue-----

We have raised it. This is a democracy.

Deputy Doherty knows the procedure.

This is the forum in which we are supposed to introduce legislation-----

The Deputy knows very well what are the rules of the House.

That is the whole point. The legislation has been purposely blocked.

Deputies, please.

I thank the Deputy for raising the question. I saw the figures from the same report that he has raised and it is very disturbing. We are moving to ban microbeads in the State and we would like to do this in conjunction with our EU partners because it is a Single Market issue. We trade across every market so we would like to see all products on our shelves with no microbeads in them. We will have draft legislation at the beginning of June at the very latest.