Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

-----in respect of the fees themselves. It is unacceptable for the committee that we operate in this way.

If I might respectfully say to the Cathaoirleach whose position I respect, whatever the party politics of an issue like this, there is a bigger issue for the committee and how we work. If we are being told that there will be pre-legislative scrutiny and that this is a collective endeavour, particularly on something as important as this, and then the Minister at the eleventh hour brings in a significant change to the legislation in this manner and we ask for further time for consideration and for experts to come in and give a view, and that gets knocked on the head, that makes a bit of a farce of our proceedings.