Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

I agree with colleagues that this matter should be debated in the House. It is proposed to refer this for consideration by the Select Committee on Environment and Local Government tomorrow following which there would be a 20 minute debate on Thursday morning. Perhaps a way to deal with this would be to extend the 20 minute debate on Thursday morning to allow the House an adequate debate. Twenty minutes is not sufficient. As far as I am concerned, if there were a commitment from the Taoiseach to extend the debate on Thursday morning, then this issue could be dealt with by the committee tomorrow and debated in the House on Thursday morning.

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