Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent) | Oireachtas source

This amendment was included after Second Stage and we did not have the opportunity to debate it. We will have an opportunity to do so on Report Stage because, clearly, amendments will be tabled. Given that it is a large financial issue and substantially changes matters, is there not a need to facilitate an additional debate prior to Report Stage? The process is defective when this amendment can be inserted at a very late hour and there has not been the required amount of debate on it. Even from the point of view of transparency, people will ask, "How is it we never heard about this?"