The Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017 commenced Report Stage on Wednesday. I was advised by Deputy Pringle that the Business Committee has not scheduled that Bill for discussion over the next two weeks. We need an explanation for that, because thousands of workers, both rural and urban, are waiting for this Bill to go through. It is hugely anticipated and it should be progressed over the next two weeks. We cannot leave this legislation until after the summer recess.

We would have been able to discuss this legislation last night if not for the filibustering that occurred. The actions of those Deputies have genuine consequences. We can all agree on that. The legislation is on a list, and I genuinely hope that we get to it before the recess.

Can the legislation be prioritised? I was told it was.

It is a priority. We are doing nothing else except discussing this Bill. There is very little left to discuss on Report Stage. The ambition was to try to get the legislation in and out of the Seanad before the summer break, and that ambition has not changed.

Put it in early next week.

The ambition was to try to get the legislation in and out of the Seanad before the summer break, and that has not changed.

Let us try to do that.

It has to be prioritised.