In view of the Government's proposal to reform the Dáil which we are supposed to be obstructing in this House, which is the reason it has to be abolished, I draw the attention of the House to a message that arrived this morning at 10.13 a.m. inviting Deputies who wish to make amendments on Report Stage of the Taxi Regulation Bill to submit them by 11 a.m., as the debate is taking place next week. Deputies were given 47 minutes to amend a Bill that we in this House know was highly flawed from beginning to end. It started off in 2012. The Government not only holds the Seanad in disdain but gives Deputies little more than half an hour to submit their amendments. I ask the Deputy Leader to seek, as part of Dáil reform, that this does not happen this morning and that Deputies get an extended time to submit amendments.

The Taoiseach should listen.

This is a highly flawed Bill which requires amendment. It is yet another example of the contempt of the Executive for both Houses of Parliament.

I note the intervention in a domestic debate about the future of this House by Baron Hattersley of Sparkbrook. I do not know if he is sparking on all cylinders, but he says today that the Seanad is like the House of Lords, as no-one pays a blind bit of notice to it.

Roy was always a sparker.

I say to his lordship that there are 550 amendments to prove the contrary. When one looks through his biography, it states that in 2008, Roy Hattersley appeared in a documentary on the DVD for the "Dr. Who" serial. "Dr. Who do you think you are"? is my response to his intervention in the affairs of this House. Baron Hattersley is the biographer of Lloyd George, who set up the Senate with provost Bernard and Arthur Griffith. While I want this to be recorded here, I do not wish to appear in the record as Lord Barrett in order that Roy Hattersley will know the difference between this democratic Senate and the House of Lords of which he is a member.

That is him with his "Spitting Image".