Senators Mark Daly, Ivana Bacik, David Cullinane and Michael Mullins, among other Senators, mentioned the Order of Business, particularly next Monday. As the Deputy Leader mentioned, we must deal with the Courts Bill and the Prisons Bill. I do not think there is any chance the debates on such legislation will be guillotined and I think both Bills will be well received by the House. As the Deputy Leader said, there are some matters dealt with in them that need attention and the Government is attending to them. It is unfortunate that they have reached the House so late in the legislative cycle of the Government and I regret having to guillotine the debate on the International Protection Bill on Monday. I cannot understand how the Department of Justice and Equality could publish a Bill only last week, yet produce 80 or 90 amendments this week.

Such work is the responsibility of the Department or whoever is responsible for drafting amendments. I question why the Bill was published in the first place when so many amendments have been produced. In saying this, we will debate the Bill for two hours today on Committee Stage and will have a further three hours of debate on Monday which should be more than sufficient time to deal with the amendments tabled. Many of the Government's amendments are technical.

There are 400 amendments in total.

Many other amendments deserve discussion, but five hours of discussion should suffice.

Senator Mark Daly mentioned the undocumented Irish in the United States, a matter to which several Senators alluded. The action must be taken by the US Government to change its laws to provide visas for the undocumented Irish. I can assure the Senator that, irrespective of what speech from which he quoted, the Government, including the Taoiseach, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Minister of State with responsibility for the diaspora, has made strong representations to representatives in the United States to have the laws changed and deal with the question of the undocumented Irish. In many instances, the response has not been very positive from both sides of the Houses of Congress when it comes to voting and bringing forward proper legislation. There is, therefore, still an amount of work to be done. The Government will continue to address the matter and lobby as much as possible, but at the end of the day it is a question for the US Administration and legislators in the United States to legislate. We cannot dictate what other countries should do, but we can suggest what they should do. We do not have the power to tell them what to do. We will continue to lobby as much as possible to find a solution to the problem.

Senator Ivana Bacik raised the issue of votes for Irish citizens living abroad. I am sure the matter will be addressed in future legislation. We will debate it, possibly in the next term of the Government, if we are returned to power, but nobody knows what the outcome will be.