Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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I suggest we seek legal advice from the Oireachtas legal service on what has happened with the Bill. We need a root and branch investigation of the process from start to end. What the Government has done is fundamentally unfair to Members of the Oireachtas and our constituents. I would like to see the legal advice and have the right to question our legal advisers about what has happened in processing the Bill. Deputy Bríd Smith is absolutely right. The truth, as we all know, is that at just the last minute the Government realised it did not have the numbers to block the Bill and that it might actually become law. It pulled a card from under the deck and threw it onto the table to say we were not even going to have the pleasure of debating the Bill on Committee Stage.