On the business for the week, I scanned the business paper and I could not find anywhere within it the Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017. This Bill is not everything that we would want but it contains important proposals, such as a curtailment of zero-hour contracts. It is a key issue for many workers, including the LloydsPharmacy workers who are being forced out on strike again this Friday. We want to see this item on the agenda and we want this House to have a chance to pass the legislation with amendments before the summer recess.

Does the Minister want to respond to that matter?

Certainly, no problem. I will give Deputy Barry exactly the same answer today as I gave him last week when he raised the issue. There are competing interests in this House, we have ten days left, and I have every intention of trying to bring that Bill to Committee Stage before we rise next week. That has not changed.

I accept that there are competing interests. One of those competing interests is the interests of low-paid workers who are working in retail and the like through the summer who cannot wait until the autumn for this House to bring in the necessary improvements and the issue must be dealt with before the summer recess.

The Minister has given Deputy Barry an undertaking.

If we finish Committee Stage next week, with respect, it still has to go to the Seanad and then, from the Seanad, it will still have to come back here. Unless the Deputy has some other suggestions as to how we finish all Stages between now and Friday next, I am at a loss as to how we can implement it before the summer recess.

The Business Committee should meet and discuss how it can be processed before the summer recess.

We will consult on the matter this afternoon.

It was raised last week and I asked that it be prioritised over some of the Bills that are being taken this week.

We will have a consultation this afternoon.

We can do it on Friday morning.