Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will just take 30 seconds. My amendment relates to the two lay people who are nominated by FLAC and the ICCL, which has nothing to do with incurring a charge on the Exchequer. When we rang the Bills Office yesterday after seeing the rulings and because we could not figure out why in God's name this amendment would be ruled out when those organisations were mentioned elsewhere, the office came up with a completely different technical reason. We were told that it would have been grand had we included this provision in amendment No. 33 and that we could do that on the next Stage. The ruling seems rudderless and without basic reasoning.

Although there was a storm, the lateness of the groupings list was not helpful. It is difficult to prepare if we are only getting the groupings the evening beforehand.