The debate on last year's Finance Bill was relatively short. I will be opposing the amendment to the Order of Business. I find it slightly hard to take that a group which has spent 100 hours plus opposing the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill is now in a rush to have a debate on it and to have that debate taken before debates on other matters.

Hear, hear.

That is absolute nonsense. It is a question of timing.

It is completely accurate.

It is not the length of the debate that is at issue, it is a question of timing.

Senators are asking that it be rushed into the Chamber despite that they spent over 100 hours opposing it.

It is a good point.

What is Senator Horkan's problem?

My problem is that-----

The problem is that Senator Horkan does not know what he is talking about.

I know exactly what I am talking about.

Senator Horkan is correct.

How predictable that Senator Buttimer would say that.

Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael should stop kidding themselves and co-operating with each other.

Senator Horkan, without interruption.

I am making the point, validly, that the people who are proposing the amendment to the Order of Business to rush the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill into the House at 4.45 p.m. are the same individuals who have spent hundreds of hours and approximately a year and a half opposing it. That is fine. I have opposed the Bill too. I have no problem with them opposing the Bill, but I find it slightly hard to take that they want to rush it in now when they have been opposing it up to now.