Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

I wish to start by drawing attention to the remarks made by Deputy Costello regarding, as he put it, the pressure of time on Report Stage of this Bill during which the issue of whether there should be a one-person or a three-person ombudsman would be discussed. It should be put on the record of this House that all sympathy has now evaporated for the proposition that the Opposition parties wanted more time for this debate. Deputy Stagg deliberately ate into the time allocated for this debate——

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